Sekirov Dictionary

caveat

UK /ˈkævɪæt/US /ˈkæviɑt/

noun 5
verb 5
forms 4

noun5

•
A warning.
- There is at least one caveat in cultivation: you’ll have to stick to only one discipline, such as that according to Bhaiṣajyaguru, the Medicine Buddha.
•
A qualification or exemption.
- He gave his daughter some hyacinth bulbs with the caveat that she plant them in the shade.
A formal objection.
A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.

verb5

•
To qualify a statement with a caveat or proviso.
- I want to caveat everything I say with the disclaimer that I was working from photos. — 1996
To formally object to something.
•
To lodge a formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
- It is unclear whether or not a purchaser upon exchange of contracts will be regarded as guilty of postponing conduct if failing to caveat. — 2005
•
(old-fashioned) To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended.
- The answer further alleged that the intestate, in right of his wife, caveated the probate in Virginia of the will of one William Hill, her relation; […] — 1838
•
(no longer used) To warn or caution against some event.
- […] I beseach you to caveat any addresse being fully heard until some person commissioned from this Countrey be their to confront the sayd Dutch or their complices. — 1663

forms

caveated · caveating · caveatting · caveats

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