caveat
- a warning or caution; admonition.
- Law. a legal notice to a court or public officer to suspend a certain proceeding until the notifier is given a hearing: a caveat filed against the probate of a will.
Origin of caveat
Examples from the Web for caveat
Contemporary Examples
The one caveat: Asprey advises only buying butter made from grass-fed or pastured cows.
Hulagu then gave his men licence to rape, kill and plunder with the caveat that Christians and Jews were to be spared.
Instead, MacMillan has the temerity to issue a caveat mid-thrust.
But then, just when we feared that the Cox we suspected we knew was about to get too schmaltzy, too idyllic, she adds a caveat.
Courteney Cox Gets Personal About Her Directorial Debut, ‘Just Before I Go’Kevin Fallon
April 29, 2014
Such a caveat is welcoming after having been force-fed the western canon by certain others.
Historical Examples
This plan is preferred by many inventors to filing a caveat.
Practical Pointers for PatenteesFranklin Cresee
That sense of caveat donor was perhaps their most pathetic characteristic.
The Dwelling Place of Light, CompleteWinston Churchill
A gentleman: that was an argument against which it was futile to enter a caveat.
The Goose ManJacob Wassermann
But, if he does, he can at once enter a caveat in the Probate Registry.
The Herapath PropertyJ. S. Fletcher
I felt I must give you the opportunity of entering a caveat.
Lady LilithStephen McKenna
caveat
- law a formal notice requesting the court or officer to refrain from taking some specified action without giving prior notice to the person lodging the caveat
- a warning; caution
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for caveat
n.
1540s, from Latin, literally "let him beware," 3rd person singular present subjunctive of cavere "to beware, take heed, watch, guard against," from PIE root *skeue- "to pay attention, perceive" (cf. Sanskrit kavih "wise, sage, seer, poet;" Lithuanian kavoti "tend, safeguard;" Armenian cucanem "I show;" Latin cautio "wariness;" Greek koein "to mark, perceive, hear," kydos "glory, fame," literally "that which is heard of;" Old Church Slavonic chujo "to feel, perceive, hear," cudo "wonder," literally "that which is heard of;" Czech (z)koumati "to perceive, be aware of;" Serbian chuvati "watch, heed;" Old English sceawian "to look at" (cf. show (v.)); Middle Dutch schoon "beautiful, bright," properly "showy;" Gothic hausjan "hear").