Prævent

Full definition of prævent

Verb

1. Archaic spelling of en
• 1900, Henry Charles Beeching, The Poetical Works of John Milton, page 63, lines 571–573 an unknown poem (The Clarendon Press)Where that damn’d wisard hid in sly disguise
  (For so by certain signes I knew) had met
  Already, ere my best speed could prævent,