释义 |
preˈventional, a. rare. [f. prec. + -al1.] †a. Precedent, antecedent. Obs. b. Preventive. Hence preˈventionalist.
1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1097 What concerns preventional means, Hemp-seed, or winter Cherries laid near the bed, or hanged up drive away Wall-lice. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Preventional Full Moon, that..which comes before any grand moveable Feast or Planetary Aspect. 1820Bentham Headings Bk. Fallacies Wks. 1843 X. 520 Anti⁓preventionalist's; or, Suffer-first argument. 1831Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 376 The various degrees of preventional infliction, from the fivefold retribution of Moses, to the gallows or the guillotine. |