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reversionary, a. (and n.)|rɪˈvɜːʃənərɪ|
[f. reversion1 + -ary.]
1. a. Entitled to the reversion of something. rare.
1651Walton Life Wotton in Reliq. W. (1672) d 1 By which means, and quitting the King of his promised reversionary Officers, and a piece of honest policy,..he got a Grant of it from His Majesty. 1889Spectator 9 Nov., The maritime Powers cannot settle..who shall be reversionary heir to the gateway of the Black Sea.
b. n. A reversioner. rare.
1660Pepys Diary 24 July, Baron had got a grant beyond sea, to come in before the reversionary of the Privy Seale. 1905Hibbert Jrnl. Oct. 76 He becomes the reversionary therefore of all its claims on the race.
2. a. Of the nature of, connected with, a reversion. spec. in reversionary bonus, an increase in the amount of an insurance policy payable at the maturation of the policy or the death of the person insured.
1720Lond. Gaz. No. 5864/4 Reversionary Annuities upon the 14 per Cents. 1753–4Richardson Grandison (1781) I. xlii. 304 She has, it is true, reversionary expectations. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 215 It was argued, that this was a reversionary lease, to take effect after the determination of another lease then in existence. 1845Ld. Campbell Chancellors lvi. (1857) III. 124 On his releasing a reversionary grant of the Mastership of the Rolls. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxii. 19 A Norman grantee..was not always ready to respect the reversionary rights of the church. 1898[see HM s.v. H III.]. 1930Economist 29 Mar. 702/2 The reversionary bonus for ‘with profits’ policies has been maintained at the rate to which it was raised. 1969Times 30 Apr. 26 In the United Kingdom the rate of reversionary bonus for Ordinary branch assurances has been increased by 2s. per cent.
b. (Cf. reversion1 4.)
1816Scott Old Mort. xix, Your person would be with me, and your mind with the cold meat and reversionary pasties.
3. Biol. Relating to reversion to type; tending to revert; atavistic.
1873Darwin Orig. Spec. v. (ed. 6) 127 We cannot distinguish between reversionary and analogous characters. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 114 This is what may be termed reversionary degeneration. |