Obviate Definition & Meaning

Origin of Obviate

Latin obviāre obviāt- to hinder from obvius in the way obvious

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin obviāre (“to block, to hinder").

From Wiktionary

Climatic conditions obviate the necessity of any superfluity of clothing.
To obviate this catastrophe the British reformers set to work most energetically.
To obviate this defect, it has been recommended that ornamental plants should be formed into four or five separate suites of flowering, to be distributed over the garden.
To obviate the inconvenience of placing the telephone to the mouth and the ear alternately, two telephones were commonly used at each end, joined either parallel to each other or in series.
But this did not obviate the necessity for house - to-house inspection, and although the number of different points at which leakage occurred was still great, it was always small in relation to the number of houses which were necessarily entered by the inspector; moreover, when the best had been done that possibly could be done to suppress leakage due to domestic fittings, the leakage below ground in the mains, ferrules and service pipes still remained, and was often very great.

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