CAVEATING

Noun

caveating (uncountable)

(fencing) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

Verb

caveating

present participle of caveat.

Anagrams

• evacating

Source: Wiktionary

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Ca"ve*a`ting, n. (Fencing)

Definition: Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

CAVEAT

Ca"ve*at, n. Etym: [L. caved let him beware, pres. subj. of cavere to be on one's guard to, beware.]

1. (Law)

Definition: 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.

2. (U. S. Patent Laws)

Definition: 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.

Note: A caveat is operative for one year only, but may be renewed.

3. Intimation of caution; warning; protest. We think it right to enter our caveat against a conclusion. Jeffrey. Caveat emptor Etym: [L.] (Law), let the purchaser beware, i. e., let him examine the article he is buying, and act on his own judgment.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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