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n.
Anything worn for its supposed efficacy to the wearer in averting ill or securing good fortune.
v. t.
To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.
a.
Driving or thrusting away; averting.
a.
Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
v. t.
To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
n.
One who, or that which, averts.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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imp. & p. p.
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n.
Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
n.
An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.
n.
To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid!
v. t.
To avert or appease, as by paying off; to satisfy; as, to defray wrath.
n.
A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods.
n.
An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr/le.
a.
Capable of being averted; preventable.
n.
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a.
Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.
n.
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."
n.
Hence, something that produces extraordinary effects, esp. in averting or repelling evil; an amulet; a charm; as, a talisman to avert diseases.
v. t.
To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
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