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caveat

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Noun
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ca=ve=at

CIDE DICTIONARY

caveatn. [L. caved let him beware, pres. subj. of cavere to be on one's guard to, beware.].
  •  A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.  Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.  [1913 Webster]
    " A caveat is operative for one year only, but may be renewed."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Intimation of caution; warning; protest.  [1913 Webster]
    "We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion."  [1913 Webster]
Caveat emptor [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

caveat, n.
1 a warning or proviso.
2 Law a process in court to suspend proceedings.

Etymology
L, = let a person beware

THESAURUS

caveat

admonishment, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, alarm, bench warrant, briefing, capias, caution, cautioning, consultation, council, counsel, death warrant, determent, deterrence, deterrent example, direction, example, exhortation, expostulation, fieri facias, final notice, final warning, forewarning, frightening off, guidance, habere facias possessionem, hint, hortation, idea, injunction, instruction, interdict, intimidation, lesson, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, mittimus, monition, moral, nisi prius, notice, notification, object lesson, opinion, parley, precept, process, prohibitory injunction, proposal, recommendation, remonstrance, search warrant, suggestion, talking out of, thought, threat, tip-off, ultimatum, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, writ

ROGET THESAURUS

caveat

Warning

N warning, early warning, caution, caveat, notice, premonition, premonishment, prediction, contraindication, lesson, dehortation, admonition, monition, alarm, handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag, fog-signal, foghorn, siren, monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch, watchtower, beacon, signal post, lighthouse, sentinel, sentry, watch, watchman, watch and ward, watchdog, bandog, housedog, patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial, undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman, advanced guard, rear guard, lookout, cautiousness, monitor, guard camera, radar, AWACS, spy satellite, spy-in-the- sky, U2 plane, spy plane, warning, premonitory, monitory, cautionary, admonitory, admonitive, sematic, warned, forewarned, on one's guard, in terrorem, Int, beware!, ware!, take care!, look out!, fore (golf), mind what you are about!, take care what you are about!, mind!, ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort, don't wake a sleeping cat, foenum habet in cornu, caveat actor, le silence du people est la legon des rois, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, un averti en vaut deux.

Command

N command, order, ordinance, act, fiat, hukm, bidding, dictum, hest, behest, call, beck, nod, despatch, dispatch, message, direction, injunction, charge, instructions, appointment, fixture, demand, exaction, imposition, requisition, claim, reclamation, revendication, ultimatum, request, requirement, dictation, dictate, mandate, caveat, decree, senatus consultum, precept, prescript, rescript, writ, ordination, bull, ex cathedra pronouncement, edict, decretal, dispensation, prescription, brevet, placit, ukase, ukaz, firman, hatti- sherif, warrant, passport, mittimus, mandamus, summons, subpoena, nisi prius, interpellation, citation, word, word of command, mot d'ordre, bugle call, trumpet call, beat of drum, tattoo, order of the day, enactment, plebiscite, commanding, authoritative, decretory, decretive, decretal, callable, jussive, in a commanding tone, by a stroke of the pen, by a dash of the pen, by order, at beat of drum, on the first summons, the decree is gone forth, sic volo sic jubeo, le Roi le veut, boutez en avant.


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