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† renversev.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French renverser. Etymology: < Middle French ranverser, renverser (French renverser ) to overturn, to turn upside down (1316 in Old French; earlier in an isolated attestation in sense ‘to cut (fabric) on the reverse side’ (1280)), (in Heraldry) to invert, reverse (a symbol) (1378), to change, to reverse (a sentence, situation, etc.) (a1410), to reject (a1467), to destroy, lay low (1496), to defeat, conquer (a1500) < re- re- prefix + enverser (see enversed adj.).In spite of the chronology, the α. forms apparently show a development from the β. forms, although compare Anglo-Norman remverter to cause to turn back (mid 13th cent. or earlier). Obsolete. the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [verb (transitive)] > throw into utter disorder or upset the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > capsize or upset α. 1521 in J. Stuart (1844) I. 98 Maister Johnne Marschell, maister of the grammer scvyll..ranuersit his compulsatour of the Curt of Royme in all poyntis. 1555 ii. xiii. sig. I.ii/2 He hath aye ioye theyr honour to ramuerse. 1593 T. Nashe f. 14 They seeke to drowne and ramuerse euery ship. a1617 J. Melville (1827) 31 Thus can God..ranverse the finest practises..of mighty rulers. 1645 J. Howell iii. xx. 79 God forbid that a businesse of so high a consequence..should be ranversd by differences twixt a few privat subjects. 1654 in R. Renwick (1887) I. 213 They salbe consenting to this act and ingadge thameselfis not to ramverse or annull the same. 1671 R. McWard 236 Plainly to ranverse both the freedom of making, and necessity of keeping all vowes. 1702 C. Mather ii. iv. 12/1 If there were a Town in Spain undermined by Coneys,..a Third in Greece ranversed by Frogs. 1728 R. Wodrow (1843) III. 381 The sentence and decision of the Commission could not be opened and ranversed. β. 1545 W. Paget Let. to Henry VIII 21 Nov. in (1849) X. 693 But drawe the rayn a litle, and then all was renversed and lost that had before ben don, how freendly and beneficial soever it was.1600 P. Holland tr. Livy vi. 244 By mine absolute authoritie maintaine this your helpe and succour, now renversed and overthrowne.a1617 J. Melville (1827) 61 Thus way can God by his devyn provdyence renverse the fynest practyses and pretences of mychty reulers.a1649 W. Drummond (1711) 216 To settle Things so..that they should not vary and change, were to renverse that Order which God hath established.1765 L. Sterne VIII. xix. 75 The furious execution of which, renversing every thing like thunder before it, has become a new æra to us of military improvements.1776 S. Crisp Let. Sept. in F. Burney (1907) II. 143 In a course of years the commerce of that world commonly renverses all these things topsy turvy.society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > take away a right [verb (transitive)] the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away the world > space > relative position > inversion > invert [verb (transitive)] > turn the reverse or wrong way c1586 J. Stewart (1913) 14 Thair ryders all in harneis drest Bot both renuerst..The one lyis slaine the vther plaine opprest. 1590 E. Spenser i. iv. sig. D5v Whose shield he beares renuerst, the more to heap disdayn. 1596 E. Spenser v. iii. sig. O7v He..From him reft his shield, and it renuerst . View more context for this quotation 1610 J. Donne x. 274 That English Priest Bridgewater, which cals himselfe Aquipontanus, ouerturning and re-enuersing [errata renuersing] his name with his conscience. 1613 P. Simson I. 56 Pope Ihonne the ninth not onely restored Photius to his place againe, but also ramuersing his affection againe, he cursed Photius. 1624 Sir T. Roe in (1882) 188 A halfe lyon of white marble, holding the head of a bull in the pawes, the neck renuersed. 1632 W. Lithgow x. 461 He could not Ram-verse the Wedges. 1662 A. Petrie vii. i. §6. 391 Thus he did ramverse the priviledge granted by Pope Honorius the III. 1678 R. Fleming ii. 54 Their darts were ranversed, and turned back by the violence of the wind. 1714 S. Gough 37 If he should chance to do some good by a tolerable Sermon, he'd infallibly do more hurt by renversing it in an ill Life. 1798 II. xi. 378 The fire was extinguished—the furniture rudely renversed; but the doors were firmly barricadoed. Derivatives 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock 324 The sayd Rampart hauing taken the proportion of a renuersed wall, wyll make a strait shape, like vnto the first face of the wall. 1656 T. Blount at Renversed Renversed eyes, are taken for decayed eyes, or those that stand in the head. 1728 E. Chambers at Volt A Renversed Volt, is a Track of two Treads, which the Horse makes with his Head to the Centre, and his Croup out. 1788 W. Crakelt (rev. ed.) 315/2 Renversed,..overturned, inverted, altered, bad. the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > inversion of natural order or total disorder > upset or overturn the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] > of decree, law, etc. a1614 J. Melville (1842) 629 Articles for ranversing and turneing of all upsyd doune. 1671 R. McWard 34 The renversings and persecutions of these late times. a1679 J. Brown (1824) II. xx. 364 Esther was employed to effectuate the ranversing of the decree. 1721 85 It seems that nothing less will satisfy some People, than the Ranversing of our Happy Establishment, and reducing all Things into Confusion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < v.1521 |