antevert

English

Etymology

From Latin antevertere, from ante + vertere (“to turn”).

Verb

antevert (third-person singular simple present anteverts, present participle anteverting, simple past and past participle anteverted)

  1. (obsolete) To prevent.
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  2. (medicine, obsolete) To displace by anteversion.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 antevert in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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