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inversed, ppl. a. rare.|ɪnˈvɜːst|
Also inverst.
[f. as inverse a. + -ed1, -t.]
1. Inverted; turned upside down.
1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. v. 158 Hauing had the world inuerst presented to their imagination in their sleepe. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 5 The supportance of her self, though with her back downwards and perpendicularly invers'd to the Horizon. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 256 To turn Arches inversed, or upside down.
b. Reversed; with reverted sequence.
1581Savile Tacitus, Hist. Annot. (1591) 52 Liuy, in describing these Centuries, seemeth to vse an inuersed kinde of speech. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 117 Antimetabole is a sentence inverst, or turn'd back.
2. Turned inward.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witcher. xiii. xix. (1886) 258 Diverse sorts of glasses..the round, the cornerd, the inversed, the eversed.
Hence inversedly |ɪnˈvɜːstlɪ, -ˈsɛdlɪ|, adv. rare. = next.
1753Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 83 That the gravity at any point of the earth is inversedly as the distance from the center. |