单词 | preventing |
释义 | preventingn.ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > anticipation preventing1530 preoccupation1552 anticipation1553 antedate1573 prolepsis1578 forestalment1611 forestalling1641 precourse1678 pre-echo1781 pre-empting1857 previousness1881 proaction1953 proactivity1965 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 258/1 Preventyng, prevention. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie P 645 Anticipacion: preventing. Anticipatio. 2. The action of precluding or stopping an anticipated act or event. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun] withsetting1340 arrestc1400 stanchingc1400 prevention1447 forbarringc1449 stop1544 preventing1563 stopple1578 cohibition1586 intercepting1598 stonda1604 attachment1609 preclusion1616 antevertinga1656 aversion1664 interpellation1814 suppression1859 stemming1914 1563 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation I. xxxvi. 413 For the preventing of any of these dispensed Persons from flinching off from them, or falling from this Correspondence. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions 165 The preuenting of all or most of these inconueniences, I do take to be in the right sorting of wittes at the first. 1636 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 56 For the avoiding and preventing both of sin and danger. 1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 159 This day was published their majesties proclamation for the preventing of the stealth and imbezilment of their majesties stores of war. 1741 tr. J. A. Cramer Elements Art of assaying Metals 74 When the Vessels are exposed naked to the greatest Fire; it easily happens, that they burst... For the preventing of which, you must have Recourse to Lorication or Coating. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. VI. 58 The preventing of any violent procedures betwixt the parties during this litispendency. 1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 222 As to the preventing of those colonies from becoming free. 1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. xiii. 334 The preventing of the wound from becoming a nidus for the propagation of septic bacteria. 1943 Times 20 Aug. 4/1 Strategic objectives, of which by far the most important was the preventing of the evacuation of enemy troops. 1991 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 592/1 Dr Louis Appleby has..clouded the already murky issue of preventing of suicides by childbearing women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). preventingadj. 1. a. Theology. That goes before and leads or guides; spec. that predisposes to repentance and salvation. Now only in preventing grace n. = prevenient grace n. at prevenient adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > gracious > of or relating to grace > prevenient prevening1552 preventing1593 prevenienta1607 preoperating1628 prevenant1790 1593 W. Perkins Two Treat. i. xii. 68 A sinner hath in him a naturall disposition, which being stirred-up by Gods preventing grace, he may and can work togither with Gods spirit in his owne repentance. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 49 If thou but turne thy face, And take but from vs thy preventing grace. 1637 N. Byfield Comm. First Epist. St. Peter 10 The righteous, whom not only a God loves, but with such a lasting and preventing love. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) x. 120 There is a preventing Grace, by which the Will is first moved and disposed to turn to God. a1711 T. Ken Divine Love in Wks. (1838) 243 Out of what motive didst thou suffer, O boundless Benignity, but out of thy own preventing love? a1763 J. Byrom Poems (1895) II. i. 38 By Thy preventing Grace, we find The good Desires to rise within our Mind. 1804 W. Davy Syst. Divinity XXI. ccccxv. 232 Our Lord observes, how..impossible it was, without an extraordinary preventing Grace of God..‘for a rich Man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven’. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost ii. 36 There is what is called preventing grace; that is, God going before us by His operations in every good thing we do. 1943 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 26 May 10 The Rector..expressed the hope that God's preventing grace would always be with them to guide, direct and protect them. 2004 Winston-Salem (N. Carolina) Jrnl. (Nexis) 21 Feb. b7 His 7 p.m. Sunday sermon will be ‘Preventing Grace’. ΚΠ 1605 A. Warren Pouerties Patience in Poore Mans Passions sig. K2 Vertue ioyne hand in hand with Pouerty, And we will walke secur'd from bonds of feares, Not surpris'd with preuenting misery, Till Iubile proclaime those ioyfull yeares. 1643 J. Angier Lancashires Valley of Achor 3 This preventing Petition found this satisfying Answer. 1688 J. Dryden Britannia Rediviva 1 Preventing Angels met it [sc. the prayer] half the way, And sent us back to Praise, who came to Pray. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > [adjective] > obliging or complaisant commodious?1553 obliging1632 accommodating1642 complaisant1647 obligeant1654 complacential1658 engaging1673 complaisential1689 prevenant1750 preventing1751 complacent1790 commodating1887 1751 tr. Female Foundling II. 78 The polite Manners, the preventing Care, and the infinite Complaisance, the Court shewed me. 2. a. That precludes or provides against an anticipated event or act; precautionary.Now chiefly as the second element in compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [adjective] > preventative euectic1574 prophylactic1574 prophylactical1598 preventing1601 preventive1646 preventative1714 1601 J. Wheeler Treat. Commerce 84 Strangers..haue termed the Companie of M.M. Adventurers A Private, Particulare, and Preventing Companie. 1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 194 It may be it is Preventing Physick against a greater mischief. 1680 T. Shadwell Woman-captain i. 6 At Night he sows his Shirt and her Smock together, that upon any violent motion the twitch may wake him: There's a Horn-preventing Design. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xix. 61 Preventing Dian had dispatch'd her Dart, And shot the shining Mischief to the Heart! 1790 H. Wolstenholme Serm. Several Occasions II. i.18 Those, whose wickedness is to be ascribed chiefly to the want of an early and preventing education. 1838 J. Kenyon Poems 13 Say, Moon! for Thou didst shine o'er Paradise From the beginning..ere yet that other light From the preventing sword with double tongue Flamed at the gateway. 1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. 124 There are still some rust-preventing substances which cannot well be included among the coatings. 1911 Daily Courier (Connellsville, Pa.) 20 Apr. 7/1 Automatic brakes and other accident preventing devices. 1993 Life Extension Update Apr. 3 Each color pigment has enzymes, coenzymes and other specific cancer-preventing nutrients affiliated with it. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [adjective] > belonging to force preventing smuggling preventive1708 preventing1780 preventative1860 1780 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 XVI. 306 Preventing officers, [£]100. 1791 Parl. Reg. Ireland X. 46 An account of the number of officers employed in the collection of the inland excise, exclusive of preventing officers who have no salaries. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 177 Superior Officers [of the Customs]. 4 Inspectors, 16 Tide Surveyors, 3 Preventing Officers, 1 Tobacco Inspector [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530adj.1593 |
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