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,
• 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
• INFORMATIVE
  Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More.
• 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.