† extraˈvert, v. Obs.
[f. L. extrā outwards + vert-ĕre to turn: see extrovert.]
trans. To turn outwards so as to be visible. Chiefly in early Chemistry, to render visible or sensible (the latent constituents of a substance).
| 1669 W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. ii. iii. 52 It is not the moist air that extraverts any preexistent nitrous parts from the body of the minerals. a 1691 Boyle Imperfect. Doctr. Qual. vii, The sulphur, or other hypostatical principle, is intraverted or extraverted, or as others speak, inverted. ― High Veneration (1835) 50 All things are naked, and..extraverted to his eyes. |