Definition of Obviate. Meaning of Obviate. Synonyms of Obviate

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Definition of Obviate

Obviate
Obviate Ob"vi*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obviated; p. pr. & vb. n. Obviating.] [L. obviare; ob (see Ob-) + viare to go, fr. via way. See Voyage.] 1. To meet in the way. [Obs.] Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion. --Fuller. 2. To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going. To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions. --Woodward.

Meaning of Obviate from wikipedia

- Look up obviation or obviate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Obviation may refer to: A linguistic process involving the obviative (fourth person)...
- Within linguistics, obviative (abbreviated OBV) third person is a grammatical-person marking that distinguishes a referent that is less important to the...
- Operation Obviate was an unsuccessful British air raid of World War II which targeted the German battleship Tirpitz. It was conducted by Royal Air Force...
- of third person, a proximate and an obviative. The proximate is a traditional third person, while the obviative (also frequently called "fourth person")...
- at Tromsø on 29 October during Operation Obviate. Operation Catechism re-used the plans for Operation Obviate, and was conducted by the same squadrons...
- endmill as it traces a circular toolpath in the XY plane. Zero-angle cutters obviate this, functioning similarly to the traditional counterbore cutters of manual...
- the proceedings. Madonna clarified that her celebrity status "does not obviate my right to maintain my privacy, including with regard to highly personal...
- by proximate–obviative morphosyntax. The direct–inverse dimension subsumes the proximate–obviative dimension. Across languages, obviation almost always...
- in -sh. Animate nouns have four forms: singular, plural, obviative and locative. The obviate form is used when there are two or more animate third person...
- lost out to the Hughes H-4 Hercules, and after the end of World War II obviated the urgency for Sky Freighters. Martin considered a civilian version of...