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▪ I. caveat, n.|ˈkeɪviːæt|
Also 6 caviate, 6–7 caveate.
[L. caveat let him beware, 3rd sing. pres. subj. of cavēre to beware.]
1. Law.
a. A process in court (originally in ecclesiastical courts) to suspend proceedings; a notice given by some party to the proper officer not to take a certain step until the party giving the notice has been heard in opposition. Phrase, to enter or put in a caveat: also fig. see 2 b.
1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 45 A Caveat they found entred in the Bishops Office, by a Gentleman, one of the Petti-Bag, who pretended a Title. 1656Blount Glossogr., Caveat, used among the Proctors, when a person is dead, and a competition ariseth for the Executorship, or Administratorship, the party concerned enters a Caveat, to prevent or admonish others from intermedling. 1667Marvell Corr. cxiv. Wks. 1872–5 II. 273, I entered caveats both at Mr. Atturny's and Mr. Sollicitor's. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 145 A Caveat in Law..is an Intimation given to some Ordinary or Ecclesiastical Judge..notifying to him that he ought to beware how he acts in such or such an Affair. 1818Cruise Digest V. 95 1884 Law Rep. 9 Probate Div. 23 The..defendant, one of the next of kin, entered a caveat.
b. caveat emptor [lit., let the purchaser beware], let the purchaser examine the article he is buying before the bargain is completed, so that in case of disappointment after purchase he may not blame the seller.
1523Fitzherbert Husb. f. xxxvi, He [sc. the horse] is no chapmans ware yf he be wylde: but and he be tame and haue ben rydden vpon than caueat emptor be ware thou byer. 1629T. Adams Pol. Hunting in Wks. 118 We compell none to buy our Ware; Caueat emptor. 1809H. More Let. 14 Aug. (1925) 139 Mr. C. in his last Review..feels it is his duty to say, ‘Caveat Emptor’. 1902Economic Jrnl. XII. 12 Caveat emptor. It is the employer on whom the responsibility rests of testing the quality of the article he buys. 1950T. H. Marshall Citizenship & Social Class iv. 133 The principle of caveat emptor is at least plausible when you are buying a horse.
2. transf.
a. A warning, admonition, caution.
1557Recorde Whetst. Y iij b, A caueat, to be ware of to moche confidence. 1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 85 Such od caueats, as I to the frendlye can vtter. 1646S. Bolton Arraignm, Err. 50 A Caveat to you how you live. 1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. iv. 248 Those Caveats, whereof Astrologers do every year warn the people. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 365 ⁋1, I design this Paper as a Caveat to the Fair Sex. 1791Boswell Johnson (1816) IV. 448 A caveat against ostentatious bounty and favour to negroes. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1872) I. v. iii. 531 With this caveat let us now pass..to more complex cases.
b. to put in or enter a caveat (in senses 2 & 3).
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 405 It pleased the goodnesse of God by giuing the law to put in a caueat..for the tranquilitie of mankinde. 1600Holland Livy xxvi. xxiv. 602 They should put in a caveat, that he might have no libertie to warre upon the ætolians. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. xii. 37 She enters a silent caveat by a blush. 1755Young Centaur i. Wks. 1757 IV. 116 Putting in a caveat against the ridicule of infidels. 1875E. White Life in Christ ii. x. (1878) 108 To enter a caveat against a misconception.
†3. A condition previously laid down; a proviso, reservation; = caution n. 2. Obs.
1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 370 M. Heskins fombleth out the matter with a foolish caueat, that..he suffreth not violence. 1648Gage West Ind. xxi. (1655) 196 Some were offered me for nothing, with this caveat, that..I must, etc.
†4. A precaution; = caution n. 5. Obs.
1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (1862) 539/1 The chiefest caveat and provision in the reformation of the North must be to keep out those Scottes. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. 54 Let them vse this caueat especially; that they take but little at a time. 1643J. Burroughes Exp. Hosea ix. (1652) 310 God laid in a caveat and provision for the encouragement of them.
5. U.S. Patent Laws. ‘A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the office before the patent right is taken out, operating as a bar to applications respecting the same invention, from any other quarter’ (Webster).
1879G. B. Prescott Sp. Telephone 256 A caveat, describing this invention, was filed by Gray.
▪ II. caveat, v.|ˈkeɪviːæt|
[f. prec. n.]
†1. trans.
a. To enter a caveat or caution against.
b. To serve with a caveat. Obs.
1661Marquis of Argyle Last Sp. 27 May in Naphtali 288, I would caveat this. 1707Col. Rec. Penn. II. 347 Charged or Caveated the Mr. of the Rolls that he should make out no Exemplification or Coppy thereof.
2. intr. To enter a caveat.
In mod. Dicts.
3. Fencing. (intr.) To shift one's sword from one side to the other of one's adversary's sword, to ‘disengage’. Hence caveating vbl. n.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 274 In case the adversary after a finda, going to the parade, discover his breast to caveat. 1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Caveating, or Disengaging, slipping the Adversary's Sword, when 'tis going to bind or secure one's own. 1707Hope New Method Fencing 82 This Contre-Caveating..is a Circular Parade, that is, a Man in performing it, forms with his Sword not only one, but sometimes (according as his Adversary shall Caveat or shun it) two or three Circles. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Caveating is so necessary a motion in fencing, that without it, there could be scarce any offensive part. |