obviate
Collocations
3ADJ.
active, deictic, proximate
VERB + OBVIATE
plan, think, use
OBVIATE + NOUN
category, costiveness, mattina, scruples
Definitions
verb
To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.
[…] and in the kindest manner she now urged Fanny’s taking one for the cross and to keep for her sake, saying everything she could think of to obviate the scruples which were making Fanny start back at first with a look of horror at the proposal.
The door it was necessary to keep ajar in hers, as in most cottages, because of the smoke; but she obviated the effect of the ribbon of light through the chink by hanging a cloth over that also.
To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
A mild dose of a warm active aperient to obviate costiveness, or to produce two motions daily, is generally very beneficial.
If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
noun
Synonym of obviative.
adj
Synonym of obviative.
Colville has a rich deictic system with forms which distinguish, for example, between source and location, with each possibility characterized as proximate and obviate as well (Mattina, 1973).
The renovated system involved an obviate-proximate pronominal alternation (yu- vs. mu- respectively in Tolowa; see Bommelyn 1997), with the pronouns coming most likely out of the deictic pronoun system.
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6[…] and in the kindest manner she now urged Fanny’s taking one for the cross and to keep for her sake, saying everything she could think of to obviate the scruples which were making Fanny start back a
WiktionaryThe door it was necessary to keep ajar in hers, as in most cottages, because of the smoke; but she obviated the effect of the ribbon of light through the chink by hanging a cloth over that also.
WiktionaryA mild dose of a warm active aperient to obviate costiveness, or to produce two motions daily, is generally very beneficial.
WiktionaryColville has a rich deictic system with forms which distinguish, for example, between source and location, with each possibility characterized as proximate and obviate as well (Mattina, 1973).
WiktionaryThe renovated system involved an obviate-proximate pronominal alternation (yu- vs. mu- respectively in Tolowa; see Bommelyn 1997), with the pronouns coming most likely out of the deictic pronoun syste
WiktionaryThis use of the obviate deictic category—that, there, those—contrasts sharply with the use of the proximate in the body of the narrative— this, here, these.
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