Prevent : Webster's 1828 Dictionary

 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Prevent

PREVENT', verb transitive [Latin proevenio, supra.]

 

1. To go before; to precede.

 

I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried. Psalms 119:148.

 

2. To precede, as something unexpected or unsought.

 

The days of my affliction prevented me. Job 30:27.

 

2 Samuel 22:6.

 

3. To go before; to precede; to favor by anticipation or by hindering distress or evil.

 

The God of my mercy shall prevent me. Psalms 59:10.

 

PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favor.

 

4. To anticipate.

 

Their ready guilt preventing thy commands.

 

5. To preoccupy; to pre-engage; to attempt first.

 

Thou hast prevented us with overtures of love.

 

[In all the preceding senses, the word is obsolete.]

 

6. To hinder; to obstruct; to intercept the approach or access of. This is now the only sense. No foresight or care will prevent every misfortune. Religion supplies consolation under afflictions which cannot be prevented. It is easier to prevent an evil than to remedy it.

 

Too great confidence in success, is the likeliest to prevent it.

 

PREVENT', verb intransitive To come before the usual time. [Not in use.]

 

 

웹스터 1828년 사전
Prevent
'PREVENT', 타동사 [라틴어 proevenio, supra.]

1. 앞서 가다; 선봉에 서다.

나는 아침이 밝아오기 전에 부르짖었노라. 시편 119:148.

2. 예상치 못한 일이나 원치 않는 일이 닥치다.

고난의 날들이 나를 앞질렀다. 욥기 30:27.

사무엘하 22:6.

3. 앞서 가다; 선봉에 서다; 고난이나 악을 미리 막거나 예방하여 호의를 베풀다.

나의 자비의 하나님께서 나를 앞질러 주시리라. 시편 59:10.

주여, 우리의 모든 일에 주의 은혜로 우리를 막아 주소서.

4. 예상하다.

그들의 죄악이 주의 명령을 앞지르게 하소서.

5. 몰두하게 하다; 먼저 접근하다; 먼저 시도하다.

당신은 사랑의 제안으로 우리를 막으셨습니다.

[앞의 모든 의미에서 이 단어는 더 이상 사용되지 않습니다.]

6. 방해하다; 막다; 접근을 가로막다. 현재는 이 의미만 사용됩니다. 어떤 예지력이나 주의도 모든 불행을 막을 수는 없습니다. 종교는 피할 수 없는 고난 속에서 위로를 제공합니다. 악을 예방하는 것이 그것을 고치는 것보다 쉽습니다.

성공에 대한 지나친 자신감은 성공을 막을 가능성이 가장 큽니다.