Word Meanings - PRECAUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries

Additional info about word: PRECAUTION

praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution. J. H. Newman. 2. A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident.

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• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• PREVIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• TREASURERSHIP
  The office of treasurer.
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• CESSAVIT
  A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.