caveat.
A warning.
Meaning & usage
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 objection. A formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
A notice requesting a postponement of a court proceeding.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin caveat (“may he/she/it beware”), third-person singular present active subjunctive of caveō (“to beware of”). Doublet of show, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”).
To qualify a statement with a caveat or proviso.
To formally object to something.
To formally object to something. To lodge a formal notice of interest in land under a Torrens land-title system.
To issue a notice requesting that proceedings be suspended.
To warn or caution against some event.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin caveat (“may he/she/it beware”), third-person singular present active subjunctive of caveō (“to beware of”). Doublet of show, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁- (“to heed, look, feel, take note of”).
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