preventivelyadv.
/prᵻˈvɛntᵻvli/, U.S. /priˈvɛn(t)ᵻvli/, /prəˈvɛn(t)ᵻvli/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [adverb] > in advance or beforehand
yeteOE
forea1225
beforehand?c1225
alreadyc1300
forrow1489
aforehanda1500
sincea1556
tofore1597
forwarda1604
preventively1646
anticipatelya1677
ahead1835
anticipatively1864
anticipatorily1878
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xiv. 368 To engrosse the messe, he would preventively deliver his nostrils in the dish. View more context for this quotation
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 146 We shall shew, how the ancient Atomick Atheists, did preventively overtherthrow [sic] the Foundation of Hylozoism.
1721 Place's Hypothetical Notion of Plague iv. 27 The Destroying Damping, Disarming, or Defeating the Activity of the Pestilential Particles, This must be done either preventively, whilst they are without the Blood, or in their Passage into it, or after they are got into it.
2. By way of prevention or precaution; so as to preclude or hinder.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [adverb]
preventingly?1567
preventively1694
preclusively1695
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > types of treatment generally > [adverb] > preventative
preventively1694
prophylactically1855
1694 W. Salmon Pharmacopœia Bateana i. ii. 877/1 It is chiefly to be done (if used preventively) three days before and after the Full and New Moons.
1742 D. Cox Observ. Epidemic Fever (ed. 2) 41 Notwithstanding the Bark was given preventively, he relapsed again the 26th; but the Paroxysms were milder, and much easier removed.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 115 It is, preventively, the assertor of its own rights; or remedially, their avenger.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 649 Under all the various weights..which have of late years pressed so preventively on the mainspring of my powers, I have never forgotten the kindness.
1862 T. A. Trollope Lenten Journey xiv. 216 Many persons of known bad character..were preventively imprisoned.
1934 Times 4 May 15/5 Sir Thomas has applied a cure, but he has not dealt preventively with the cause.
1989 Sci. Amer. May 22/1 It seemed likely that, done preventively in the first few days after a heart attack, angioplasty would reduce the risk of future angina.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1646- to have one's collar felt
- to have one's days
- to have one's ear to the ground
- to have one's ears flapping
- to have one's ears on
- to have one's ears to the ground
- to have one's eye after
- to have one's eye in
- to have one's eye on
- to have one's eye on the ball
- to have one's eye on the prize
- to have one's eye one's merchant
- to have one's eye to the prize
- to have one's eye upon
- to have one's eye well in
- to have one's eyeball on
- to have one's eyes in
- to have one's eyes on the prize
- to have one's eyes well in
- to have one's eyeteeth
- to have one's eyeteeth about one
- to have one's face made of a fiddle
- to have one's fair share
- to have one's feet loose
- to have one's feet on the ground