prevene

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English

Etymology

From French prévenir, Latin praevenire. See prevent.

Verb

prevene (third-person singular simple present prevenes, present participle prevening, simple past and past participle prevened)

  1. (obsolete) To come before; to anticipate.
    • 1708, [John Philips], “Book I”, in Cyder. , London: J Tonson, , →OCLC, page 43:
      If Thy indulgent Care / Had not preven'd, among unbody'd Shades / I now had wander'd
  2. (obsolete) To hinder or prevent.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prevene”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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