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Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.

That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.

One who prevents or obstructs; a hinderer; that which hinders; as, a preventer of evils or of disease.

So as to prevent or hinder.

t of going, or state of being, before. [Obs.] The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. Bacon.

Tending to prevent. [Obs.]

Going before; preceding. [Obs.] Any previous counsel or preventive understanding. Cudworth.

In a preventive manner.

One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years.

Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11.

Next in order after the sixth;; coming after six others. On the seventh day, God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen. ii. 2.

In the seventh place.

Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.

The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.

A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.

Not prevented or hindered; as, unprevented sorrows. Shak.

The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious. "The cause of your abrupt departure." Shak.

To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun. If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined. Addison.