† transˈvert, v. Obs.
[ad. L. transvertĕre to turn across, f. trans across + vertĕre to turn.]
trans. To turn across or athwart; to turn into something else, transform, convert; to turn about, reverse, overturn.
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 191 Somme men hauenge senowes as transuertede and ouercrossede thro alle the body, haue bene of grete myȝhte. c 1450 Craft of Lovers 419 Why mens langage wol procure and transuert The will of women and virgines innocent? 1552 Huloet s.v. B, In composicions, B. is transuerted into these letters C. F. G. P. V. Ibid., Preposterouse, out of order, overthwarth, transuerted. 1608 Dod & Cleaver Expos. Prov. xi-xii. 143 They usually transuert their fauor and iustice, shewing mercy where they should exercise seuerity, and practising cruelty where they should shew mercy. 1651 Howell Venice 185 To transvert the Keys of Paradise into the Keys of a Prison. a 1660 Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) III. 80, I maye lawfully saye, as our Saviour saide unto Saule,..transuertinge onely his name: Vllacke, Vllacke, cur me persequeris? |
Hence † transˈvertible a. Obs., capable of being transverted.
| ? 16.. [? Sir T.] Browne cited in Webster (1864). |