† perˈverser Obs.
Also 5 -our.
[app. orig. agent-noun in L. or AF. form from L. pervertĕre or obs. F. perverser to pervert; in form perverser referred to perverse v.]
One who perverts; a corrupter, perverter.
| 1482 Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 90 Not beyng rectors and faders, but peruersours and destroyers of her sowlys. a 1564 Becon Demands Holy Script. Pref., Such professors, or rather perversers of the gospel, are like to that son whych promised his father to work.., and wrought nothyng at al. |