inversedadj.

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xxvi. f. 37 Diuers sortes of [seeinge] Glasses, as are..the rounde, the cornered, the inuersed, the euersed, [etc.].

1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. f. 11 The cancrous vlcer is in sight horrible and stinking, hauing edges hard, thicke, swelled, and inuersed, the colour in the middest betwixt red and blacke.

1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1484/1 Cup [of the acorn] with the lower scales appressed, the middle ones spreading, and the upper ones inversed, almost enclosing the nut.

1965 S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull. 20 66/1 Rim sherd, slightly tapered and inversed, 7 mm. thick.

1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 203 Ye sawe a glimse, that this inuersed argument could not proue Moyses to be a lyke Priest to Christ nor bishoppe at al.

1591 H. Savile Annot. vpon Tacitus 52 in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. Liuy in describing these Centuries seemeth to vse an inuersed kinde of speech.

1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 117 Antimetabole is a sentence inverst, or turn'd back.

1705 J. Hodgson Theory of Navigation Demonstrated 122 By the Inversed Method, may the Bearing and Distance of any places in the Chart be known, viz. by taking their Distance betwixt the Points of the Compasses, and applying it to the Meridian.

1740 Irish Spelling-bk. 230 In the Greek, it anciently had the very same Character, which we use, tho' now written like an inversed Apostrophe (‘).

1805 J. M. Good in tr. Lucretius Nature of Things II. iv. 26/2 (note) The same process necessarily takes place, but in an inversed order, with the antagonist ray.

1886 Sci. Amer. 6 Feb. 82/2 It will be understood that the driven pulley might also be formed with an expanding peripheral face, that might be made to be adjusted simultaneously with the driving pulley, but in an inversed direction.

1939 Philos. Sci. 6 30 A symmetrical arrangement involves two figures which are identical in shape and size and have inversed positions in space.

2011 Lang. Resources & Eval. 45 471 Certain constructions involving VPE license an inversed order of the subject and auxiliary.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 85^v Vppon the foure corners, were fastned foure coppies, inuersed.

1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. v. 158 Hauing had the world inuerst presented to their imagination in their sleepe.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 5 The supportance of her self, though with her back downwards and perpendicularly invers'd to the Horizon.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 19 To turn Arches inversed, or upside down.

1739 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. II. at Petiveria The Fruit..is bordered and cut at the Top, resembling an inversed Shield containing oblong Seeds.

1839 W. C. Redfield Let. to Secretary of Treasury: Hist. & Causes of Steamboat Explosions (rev. ed.) 16 The shell of the boiler was torn open in the lower arches, and spread outward till its parts met in an inversed position, and was thrown some distance from the boat.

1868 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 1 189 These two lines form a rude figure of an inversed M with rounded angles.

1904 Engin. Rev. 10 81/1 The antennae are formed of several longitudinal wires, constituting an inversed triangle, radiating from the inversed point towards the upwards-turned basis of the triangles.

1995 Jrnl. Ecol. 83 313/1 The age distribution follows an inversed J-shaped curve.

2002 United Press Internat. (Nexis) 27 July To better understand what keeps Saddam so solidly in command.., one should visualize an inversed pyramid.