This week's theme: miscellaneous words. prevenient (pri-VEEN-yuhnt) adjective
Coming before; anticipatory; preventive. [From Latin praevenient-, present participle of praevenire (to precede), from pre- (before) + venire (to come).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=prevenient -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "[Frank Stella's] big, shield-like 'Luis Miguel Dominguin' a silver-painted shaped canvas was acquired in 1961, a prevenient time indeed to buy Stella." Grace Glueck; A Collection That Breathes the Spirit of Modernism; The New York Times; Apr 8, 1984. Sponsored by: Perfect your French, German, Spanish or Italian with Champs-Elysees audio magazines on foreign life & culture. http://ads.champs-elysees.com/wsmith3 Ever wonder why we aren't just euphoric, we are on cloud nine? Derivation, a fun game about word and phrase origins. A great gift! http://entspire.com ............................................................................ The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief ... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. -Walter Lippman, journalist (1889-1974) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/prevenient.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/prevenient.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/prevenient.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
