1. To meet in the way. [Obs.]

Not to stir a step to obviate any of a different religion.
Fuller.

2. To anticipate; to prevent by interception; to remove from the way or path; to make unnecessary; as, to obviate the necessity of going.

To lay down everything in its full light, so as to obviate all exceptions.
Woodward.

Obviation
(Ob`vi*a"tion) n. The act of obviating, or the state of being obviated.

Obvious
(Ob"vi*ous) a. [L. obvius; ob (see Ob-) + via way. See Voyage.]

1. Opposing; fronting. [Obs.]

To the evil turn
My obvious breast.
Milton.

2. Exposed; subject; open; liable. [Obs.] "Obvious to dispute." Milton.

3. Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.

Apart and easy to be known they lie,
Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye.
Pope.

Syn. — Plain; clear; evident. See Manifest.

Ob"vi*ous*ly, adv.Ob"vi*ous- ness, n.

Obvolute
(Ob"vo*lute Ob`vo*lu"ted) a. [L. obvolutus, p. p. of obvolvere to wrap round; ob (see Ob-) + volvere to roll.] Overlapping; contorted; convolute; — applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.

Oby
(O"by) n. See Obi.

Oca
(||O"ca) n. [Sp.] (Bot.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.


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