anticipate; preoccupy, attend to first; outstrip, outrun
Latin word, found 74 times in the texts on Socratos.
Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.33.2: huic rei praevertendum existimavit et, quod legibus Aeduorum eis, qui summum magistratum obtinerent, excedere ex finibus non liceret …
Vergil, Aeneid 1.317: Harpalyce, volucremque fuga praevertitur Hebrum.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.657: atque ita “praevertunt” inquit “me fata, vetorque
All forms of praeverto