† ˌanimadˈversal Obs. rare—1.
[f. animadvert, -version, after reversal, beside revert, reversion.]
The faculty of perceiving or noticing; consciousness. = animadversion 2.
| 1642 More Song of Soul ii. ii. ii. xxxv. note, That lively inward animadversal; it is the soul itself; for I cannot conceive the body doth animadvert. |