antevert

From Latin antevertere, from ante + vertere (“to turn”).

• IPA^(key): /æntɪˈvɜː(ɹ)t/

antevert (third-person singular simple present anteverts, present participle anteverting, simple past and past participle anteverted)

1. (obsolete) To prevent, to avert.
   • 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:

     antevert some great danger to the public

2. (medicine) To displace by anteversion, or make anteverted

• “antevert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Vernetta