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单词 caveat
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caveatn.

/ˈkeɪviːat/
Forms: Also 1500s caviate, 1500s–1600s caveate.
Etymology: Latin caveat let him beware, 3rd singular present subjunctive of cavēre to beware.
1. Law.
a. A process in court (originally in ecclesiastical courts) to suspend proceedings; a notice given by some party to the proper officer not to take a certain step until the party giving the notice has been heard in opposition. Phrase, to enter a caveat or put in a caveat: also figurative see 2b.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [noun] > a stay or suspension of proceedings > caveat
caveat1654
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [verb (intransitive)] > stay or suspend proceedings > enter a caveat
to enter a caveat1654
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 45 A Caveat they found entred in the Bishops Office, by a Gentleman, one of the Petti-Bag, who pretended a Title.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Caveat, used among the Proctors, when a person is dead, and a competition ariseth for the Executorship, or Administratorship, the party concerned enters a Caveat, to prevent or admonish others from intermedling.
1669 A. Marvell Let. 18 Sept. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 258 I enterd caveats both at Mr Atturneys and Mr Sollicitors.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 145 A Caveat in Law..is an Intimation given to some Ordinary or Ecclesiastical Judge..notifying to him that he ought to beware how he acts in such or such an Affair.
1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 37.
1884 Law Rep.: Probate Div. 9 23 The..defendant, one of the next of kin, entered a caveat.
b. caveat emptor [lit., let the purchaser beware] , let the purchaser examine the article he is buying before the bargain is completed, so that in case of disappointment after purchase he may not blame the seller.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > buying > [phrase] > let the buyer beware
caveat emptor?1523
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > with caution [phrase] > precaution proceeding purchase
caveat emptor?1523
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvi He [sc. the horse] is no chapmans ware yf he be wylde: but and he be tame and haue ben rydden vpon, than caueat emptor, be ware thou byer.
1616 T. Adams Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse 75 Wee compell none to buy our Wares; Caueat emptor.
1809 H. More Let. 14 Aug. (1925) 139 Mr. C. in his last Review..feels it is his duty to say, ‘Caveat Emptor’.
1902 Econ. Jrnl. 12 12 Caveat emptor. It is the employer on whom the responsibility rests of testing the quality of the article he buys.
1950 T. H. Marshall Citizenship & Social Class iv. 133 The principle of caveat emptor is at least plausible when you are buying a horse.
2. transferred.
a. A warning, admonition, caution.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > cautionary advice or admonition
warningc1000
monishinga1382
admonition?c1400
monitionc1400
advertisementc1475
monishment1483
premonishment?1548
document1549
caveat1557
warner1565
commonition1566
monitory?1567
commonefaction1576
memento1580
lessoning1583
alarm1608
beacon1609
cautiona1616
documentation1753
heads up1977
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > a warning or caution
monition?a1475
caveat1557
take-heed1596
alarm1608
cautiona1616
precaution1658
1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Yiiiv A caueat, to be ware of to moche confidence.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 58 Such od caueats, as I to the freendlye can vtter.
1646 S. Bolton Arraignment of Errour 50 A Caveat to you how you live.
1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. 248 Those Caveats, whereof Astrologers do every year warn the people.
1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 365. ¶1 I design this Paper as a Caveat to the Fair Sex.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 574 (note) A caveat against ostentatious bounty and favour to negroes.
1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. v. iii. 531 With this caveat let us now pass..to more complex cases.
b. to put in or enter a caveat (in senses 2 & 3).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > give advice [verb (intransitive)] > give cautionary advice
warnc1000
to put in or enter a caveat1577
caution1641
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > warn [verb (intransitive)]
warna1000
premonish1549
to put in or enter a caveat1755
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. viii. sig. Kk.vij/1 It pleased the goodnesse of God by giuing ye lawe to put in a caueat..for the tranquillitie of mankind.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. xxiv. 602 They should put in a caveat, that he might have no libertie to warre upon the Ætolians.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State i. xii. 37 She enters a silent caveat by a blush.
1755 E. Young Centaur i, in Wks. (1757) IV. 116 Putting in a caveat against the ridicule of infidels.
1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) ii. x. 108 To enter a caveat against a misconception.
3. A condition previously laid down; a proviso, reservation; = caution n. 2. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [noun] > reservation, proviso
conditionc1315
preveance?1316
purview1442
proviso1443
provision1450
saving1478
forprise1530
cautel1541
caveat1579
postulate1588
cautiona1593
non obstante1604
reservation1606
unless1606
reservancy1630
salvo1642
reserve1644
stipulation1792
reserver1807
get-out clause1912
clausula rebus sic stantibus1939
escape clause1945
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 370 M. Heskins fombleth out the matter with a foolish caueat, that..he suffreth not violence.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xxi. 196 Some were offered me for nothing, with this caveat, that..I must, etc.
4. A precaution; = caution n. 5. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > caution > [noun] > a cautious action
caveata1599
cautiona1616
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > [noun] > precaution > a precaution
cautel1541
caveata1599
prevention1600
precaution1603
guard1609
cautiona1616
precautionary1748
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 80 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The cheifest caveat and provision in reformation of the north, must be to keep out those Scottes.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. vi. 54 Let them vse this Caueat especially; That they take but little at a time.
1643 J. Burroughes Expos. Hosea (1652) ix. 310 God laid in a caveat and provision for the encouragement of them.
5. U.S. Patent Law. ‘A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the office before the patent right is taken out, operating as a bar to applications respecting the same invention, from any other quarter’ (Webster).
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > industrial property rights > conferred by patent > patent > description of invention lodged officially
specification1791
caveat1879
1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 256 A caveat, describing this invention, was filed by Gray.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

caveatv.

/ˈkeɪviːat/
Etymology: < caveat n.
1. transitive.
a. To enter a caveat or caution against.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > advise [verb (transitive)] > admonish > warn of or against
warnc1000
warnc1000
warn1303
advertise1431
advise?c1450
admonish1546
dissuade?c1550
to set a watchword upona1586
diswarn1608
discounsel1629
disadvise1636
caveat1667
warn1765
precaution1768
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > warn (a person) of imminent danger or evil [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) on his guard > warn against (something dangerous)
advertise1431
to set a watchword upona1586
caveat1667
precaution1768
1667 Naphtali 196 I would caveat this.
b. To serve with a caveat. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [verb (transitive)] > stay or suspend proceedings > serve with a caveat
caveat1707
1707 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) II. 347 Charged or Caveated the Mr. of the Rolls that he should make out no Exemplification or Coppy thereof.
2. intransitive. To enter a caveat. (In modern dictionaries.)
3. Fencing. (intransitive) To shift one's sword from one side to the other of one's adversary's sword, to ‘disengage’.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fence [verb (intransitive)] > actions
traversea1470
to hold one's handa1500
flourish1552
lock1579
to come in1594
retire1594
pass1595
recover1600
redouble1640
allonge1652
caveat1652
parry1671
disengage1684
overlap1692
volt1692
tierce1765
whip1771
wrench1771
lunge1809
salute1809
riposte1823
cut1833
quart1833
repost1848
remise1889
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 228 In case the adversary after a finda, going to the parade, discover his brest to caveat.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Caveating, or Disengaging, slipping the Adversary's Sword, when 'tis going to bind or secure one's own.
1707 W. Hope New Method Fencing 82 A Man..forms with his Sword not only one, but sometimes (according as his Adversary shall Caveat or shun it) two or three Circles.

Derivatives

caveating n.
ΚΠ
1707 W. Hope New Method Fencing 82 This Contre-Caveating..is a Circular Parade.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Caveating is so necessary a motion in fencing, that without it, there could be scarce any offensive part.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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