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obvert
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Word definitions for obvert in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To turn so as to show another side
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obvert \Ob*vert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obverted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Obverting .] [L. obvertere; ob (see Ob- ) + vertere to turn. See Verse .] To turn toward. If its base be obverted towards us. --I. Watts.
Usage examples of obvert.
O cannot be converted, and to obvert it again is merely to restore the former proposition: so that the whole process moves on to inevitable dissolution.
The darkness that, outdoors, had been sweet privacy, was here obverted into secrecy: secrecy lay under the chairs, behind the doors, between the ticks of the clock.
It is needless to intimidate the reader by drawing up these four moods in battle array: they always admit of reduction to the foregoing moods by obverting the hypotheticals.
Whether some small compression of pores be not perceptible in parts which stand against the current of waters, as in Reeds, Bullrushes, and other vegetables toward the streaming quarter, may also be observed, and therefore such as are long and weak, are commonly contrived into a roundnesse of figure, whereby the water presseth lesse, and slippeth more smoothly from them, and even in flags of flat-figured leaves, the greater part obvert their sharper sides unto the current in ditches.