- skip - Brewer’s

Prevent

.

Precede, anticipate. (Latin prœ-venio, to go before.) And as what goes before us may hinder us, so prevent means to hinder or keep back.

My eyes prevent the night watches.”—Psalm cxix. 148.


“Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings.”—Common Prayer Book.

 

previous entry · index · next entry

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

previous entry · index · next entry

Preserver [Sotēr]
Press-money and Press-men
Prester John
Prestige
Presto
Preston and his Mastiffs
Pretender
Pretext
Prettyman (Prince)
Prevarication
Prevent
Previous Question
Priam
Priamond
Priapus
Prick-eared
Prick the Garter
Pride
Pride of the Morning
Pride’s Purge
Pridwen