preventionaladj.
/prᵻˈvɛnʃn̩(ə)l/, /prᵻˈvɛnʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /priˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)nəl/, /prəˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)nəl/ 1. Preventive; prophylactic.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [adjective]
checking1548
preclusory1609
preclusivea1626
preventivea1626
preventional1647
preventative1655
prevential1657
prohibitory1767
prohibitive1811
1647 Eye-salve for Armie sig. A2v I leave him and his Book to a better Examination, with this note, ‘That uncalled for voluntary and preventionall Apologies, alwayes induce suspition of the truth of them.’
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cviii It is not only Therapeuticall or restorative, but Prophylacticall or preventionall.
1701 S. Parker Sylva 223 The Ends of Punishment are either Preventional, Emendatory, or Exemplary.
1751 J. Cleland Mem. Coxcomb iii. 379 He was disappointed by..the preventional care taken against leaving any traces that might immaturely betray them to him.
1785 S. Perry Disquisition Stone & Gravel 60 The preventional medicine in question must, it is plain, possess diuretic qualities.
1842 T. P. Thompson Exercises I. 376 The various degrees of preventional infliction, from the fivefold retribution of Moses, to the gallows or the guillotine.
1895 Times 16 Feb. 7/5 He has..communicated with the clergy under his influence, suggesting the adoption of preventional means.
1925 Mansfield (Ohio) News 11 Oct. 12/4 Only two fires occurred in Mansfield this week... This fact alone goes to show that the campaign was successful from both preventional and educational viewpoints.
1998 Creative Rev. (Nexis) 1 Dec. 26 The death of an underage drinker in Boston last year brought together a bar owner and the mayor's office to create a preventional taskforce.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adjective]
ererc888
fernOE
oldOE
oldOE
formerc1160
ratherc1330
before-goingc1384
formerc1384
forenexta1400
formea1400
while1399
antecedentc1400
precedentc1400
anteceding?a1425
late1446
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preceding?a1475
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previant1601
preallable1603
prior1607
anterior1608
previal1613
once1620
previous1621
predecessivea1627
antecedaneous?1631
preventive1641
prior1641
precedaneous1645
preventional1649
antegredient1652
senior1655
prevenient1656
precedential1661
antecedental1763
past-gone1784
antevenient1800
aforetime1835
one-time1850
onewhile1882
foretime1894
erstwhile1903
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1649 J. Napier Bloody Almanack 6 The Figure of the preventionall new Moone renders the commonalty of England in a distempered, sullen, and repining condition.
1671 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Preventional Full Moon, that..which comes before any grand moveable Feast or Planetary Aspect.
1697 J. Partridge Defectio Geniturarum viii. 79 It is that Planet that hath most Dignities in the Places of the Sun, Moon, Ascendent, Part of Fortune and the Preventional, New or Full Moon.
1779 F. Moore Vox Stellarum 15 At the second Congress, which is on the 1st of May, they are at the preventional Full Moon, in the third House, in trine to ♀ in the 7th.
Derivatives
preˈventionalist n. rare a person who advocates prevention.
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1820 J. Bentham Bk. Fallacies in Wks. (1843) X. 520/1 (heading) Anti~preventionalist's; or, Suffer-first argument.]
1937 Appleton (Wisconsin) Crescent 12 Jan. 11/8 The fire preventionalist met with the members of the New London department at the engine house last night and discussed problems of prevention and safety.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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