OBVIATE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To meet in the way. [Obs.] Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion. Fuller.

2.
v.

To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going. To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions. Woodward.

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