convertend Logic.
(ˈkɒnvəˌtɛnd)
[ad. L. convertend-us, -um to be converted, gerundive pple. of convertĕre to convert.]
The name given by Hamilton to the proposition to be converted, or as it stands before conversion; see convert v. 4 b.
| 1837–8 Sir W. Hamilton Logic (1860) I. 256 The original or given proposition is called the Converse or Converted..It would be better to call [it] the Convertend..This language I shall use. Ibid. I. 257. 1870 Jevons Elem. Logic x. (1880) 82 In order that the converse or converted proposition shall be inferred from the convertend. |