Word Meanings - PREVISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To foresee. 2. To inform beforehand; to warn. Ld. Lytton.
Related words: (words related to PREVISE)
- INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - INFORMOUS
Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne. - FORESEE
1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon. - INFORMANT
1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. Glanvill. 2. One who imparts information or instruction. - INFORMATION
A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal - INFORMER
One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution - INFORMIDABLE
Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton. - INFORMED
Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed. - INFORMALLY
In an informal manner. - BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation, - INFORMATIVE
Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More. - INFORMALITY
1. The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings. 2. An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed form or does - INFORMATORY
Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. London Spectator. - INFORM
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed. Cotton. - INFORMAL
1. Not in the regular, usual, or established form; not according to official, conventional, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit. 2. Deranged in mind; out of - FORESEEN
, or p. p. Provided; in case that; on condition that. One manner of meat is most sure to every complexion, foreseen that it be alway most commonly in conformity of qualities, with the person that eateth. Sir T. Elyot. - FORESEER
One who foresees or foreknows. - WELL-INFORMED
Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent. - UNFORESEE
To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket. - MISINFORMER
One who gives or incorrect information. - OVERINFORM
To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. Johnson. - MISINFORM
To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.