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To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted "To avert his ire." Milton. When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon.…

esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.

One who, or that which, averts.

Capable of being averted; preventable.

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A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.

s in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

To avert; to ward off. [Obs.] Hudibras.

The act of averting. [Obs.]

Full of blushes. While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face. Thomson.

Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.

ones into chess men." Dickens. -- Cramp ring, a ring formerly supposed to have virtue in averting or curing cramp, as having been consecrated by one of the kings of England on Good Friday.

To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath. [Obs.] Spenser.

To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by player; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly. His purpose was deprecated by all round him, and he was with difficulty induced to adandon it. Sir W. Scott.

Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.

Driving or thrusting away; averting. [R.] Holland.

An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.

To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend. God forefend it should ever be recorded in our history. Landor. It would be a far better work . . . to forefend the cruelty. I. Taylor.

To prohibit; to forbid; to avert. [Archaic] Which peril heaven forefend! Shak.