The Collaborative International Dictionary
Advert \Ad*vert"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Adverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Adverting.] [L. advertere, v. t., to turn to; ad + vertere to turn: cf. F. avertir. See Advertise.] To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.
I may again advert to the distinction.
--Owen.
Syn: Syn.- To refer; allude; regard. See Refer.
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vb. (en-past of: advert)
Usage examples of "adverted".
He slightly adverted to a natural want of courage in women, which Ripton took to indicate that his Beauty was deficient in that quality.
We have, already, in the opening of this biography, adverted to the melancholy baldness of the memorials upon which the historian is compelled to rely for the materials of his narrative.
It was strange she never once adverted either to her mother's illness, or her brother's death, or the present gloomy state of the family prospects.
Rochester: the letter never mentions him but to narrate the fraudulent and illegal attempt I have adverted to.
The worthy John Cross, in the simplicity of his nature, never dreamed of this, but, on the contrary, when our adventurer dilated in the fatherly manner already adverted to, be looked upon himself as particularly favored of Heaven, in falling upon a youth, as a pupil, of such unctuous moral delivery.
They had conferred together seriously, and finally with agreeing minds, on the several topics which have been adverted to in the preceding paragraph.
Clipperton's eighteenth summer, of Subsidized Time, the adverted Year of the Whopper, when the U.
Slave Women are brought here from ev'rywhere in this Hemisphere, to serve as dreamy, pliant shadows, Baths of Flesh darker than Dutch, the dangerously beautiful Extrusion of everything these white brothers, seeking Communion, cannot afford to contain, whilst their wives, if adverted to at all, are imagin'd at home, sighing over needlework, or the Bible.
What enchanted Mason about these Girls, Dixon comes to realize, with some consternation, is their readiness to seek the Shadow, avoid the light, believe in what haunts these shores exactly to the Atom, ghosts ev'rywhere, Slaves, Hottentots driven into exile, animals remorselessly Savage, a Reservoir of Sin, whose Weight, like that of the atmosphere, is borne day after day unnotic'd, adverted to only when some Vacuum is encounter'd, a Stranger in Town, a Malay publickly distraught, an hour at the Lodge, into which its Contents might rush with a Turbulence felt and wonder'd at by all.
She adverted more than once to the period of her lost sway amongst the Arabs, and mentioned some of the circumstances that aided her in obtaining influence with the wandering tribes.