The utmost care was taken to obviate the chance of fraud, collusion, mistakes, or outside influences.
To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.
To hinder from doing, suffering, or happening; toobviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion.
If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuin method to obviate dishonesty.
To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions.
This much willobviate and preclude the objections.
Defn: An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light.
To obviate this difficulty, he employed one or more mules in carrying roughly-made platforms of stout poles about 10ft.
He showed that Roman friendship might be a boon, not a burden, to Bocchus; the distance of his kingdom from the capital would obviate a conflict of interests, but no distance was too great to be traversed by the gratitude of Rome.
But even the utter collapse of resistance in Numidia did not obviate the necessity for a considerable amount of detailed labour, which absorbed the energy of the commander during the closing months of the year.
It served to show the courage and discipline of the army, as well as to keep up the spirits of the soldiers themselves, and to obviate those feelings of disappointment which the previous inefficiency of the armament tended to arouse.
To obviate such a defeat of his plans, he resorted to a singular manœuvre.
The Trojans, Tuscans, and Arcadian line, With equal courage obviate their design.
To obviate this difficulty, I think there should be a sort of "Labor Exchange;" and this is a project which all classes would be glad to have carried out.
To obviate the objection which closed the Michigan University to women, a bill was drawn up, organizing a double school; that for girls to be taught by women.
It seems a perfectly simple matter to a woman to obviate the difficulties and disappointments which arise in this way.
They saw, or thought they saw, that Russia had designs on Korea, and they were determined to frustrate those designs, and so perhaps obviate in the best manner possible future attempts on the independence of Japan itself.
At the same time she has not excluded the representative element from her second chamber--a fact which must largely obviate any possibility of the House of Peers becoming a purely class body.
If the feet are not thereby raised from the floor of the pelvis the palm of the hand may be placed beneath them to protect the mucous membrane until they have advanced sufficiently to obviate this danger.
This admits of a free communication between the currents of blood, and must tend to promote equability of distribution and of pressure, and to obviate the effects of local interruption.
It can usually be traced very readily to the exciting cause, which we may be able to avoid or overcome in the future and thereby obviate subsequent attacks.
If the first, it is needless to say that every caution must be observed in order to obviate additional pain and to avoid any aggravation of the injury.
This would obviate the danger of calling into question either the sincerity or perspicacity of those whose enthusiasm tempts them to transgress the limits of propriety in their behavior towards the inquiry.
And such an adjustment would, of course, obviate the need of a material life at all for humanity.
To obviate this they now have leather tyres and should run on battens nailed to the floor.
To obviate this, horizontal layers of brushwood, timber and sometimes masonry were built into the earth bank, and answered very well (fig.
To obviate every doubt, I put a single animalcule into a drop of water, which split before my eyes.
Beyond a certain depth the sea has hitherto been found unfathomable; and though several methods have been contrived toobviate this difficulty, none of them has completely answered the purpose.
The same clerk distributes the markers to the players to obviate the great annoyance of meeting with a bad payer, the Club is the universal payer.
And reflecting on his former Losses and present Calamities, the Author could not but feel a deep Interest in whatever seem'd likely toobviate such an Evil to others.
And here it may be right to obviate some prejudice against the Poem, which, in the minds of several, may arise from the subject.
Geoffrey to Dick as he helped himself to gravy, bringing the spoon round to his plate by way of the potato-dish, to obviate a stain on the cloth in the event of a spill.
To obviate this, a new hospital was set apart, under the reign of Charles X.
Charles had granted this document "at the urgent prayer of the three estates, and in order to obviate and provide against troubles and divisions, while waiting for the decision of the General Council granted by the Pope.
Well, General, why not take means to obviate the mischief you foresee?
To obviate the difficulty of communication between Metz and Mayence a magnificent road was made, as if by magic, across impracticable marshes and vast forests.
