subvertv.

Brit.

/səbˈvəːt/, U.S.

/səbˈvərt/

Forms: Middle English–1500s subuerte, Middle English–1600s subuert, 1500s subuart, 1500s subverte, 1500s–1600s subuarte, 1500s– subvert; Scottish pre-1700 subuert, pre-1700 subwert, pre-1700 1700s– subvert.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French subvertir; Latin subvertere.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French subvertir (French †subvertir ) to raze, destroy completely (a town, building) (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman, 1291 in continental Old French), to trouble (a person) (1294), to overturn, change completely (an established practice, belief, rule, state of things) (1366), to corrupt (a person) (a1380), to cause a person to lose (power) (1422 in the passage translated in quot. a1500² at sense 3b), to overthrow (a nation) (1422 in the passage translated in quot. a1500 at sense 2a), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin subvertere to overturn, to cause the downfall of, ruin, to overthrow, destroy, to undermine, to upset, in post-classical Latin also to corrupt (a person), to cause (a person) to lose (faith) (Vulgate) < sub- sub- prefix + vertere to turn (see vert v.¹). Compare Old Occitan subvertir (c1300), Catalan subvertir (15th cent.), Spanish subvertir (late 14th cent.), Portuguese subverter (14th cent.), Italian sovvertere (first half of the 14th cent.).With the medical use in sense 5 compare slightly later subversion n. 4.

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a. transitive. To raze (a building, town, etc.) to the ground; to destroy completely. Also intransitive. Obsolete.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin

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fellOE

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to turn up?c1335

to throw down1340

to ding downc1380

to break downa1382

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underturn1382

to take downc1384

falla1400

to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400

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to burst downc1440

to pull downc1450

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to beat downc1540

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to shovel down1563

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to bluster down16..

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to make smooth work of1616

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to take apart1978

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xix. 29 Whenn forsoþ god hadde subuertid [L. subverteret] þe cyteȝ of þat regyoun.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 127 Subuertenge citees and defilenge holy places.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 163 The excellent Cite of troy for aye Subuertid and destrued was.

1513 Life Henry V (1911) 117 Some others labored to subuert and ouerthrowe the walls.

?1549 T. Becon Castell of Comforte sig. Dvi By this texte, they thynke they maye do, whatsoeuer pleaseth theym, saue or condemne, bynde or loose, holde vp or cast doune, buylde or subuerte.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 361 When those more ancient Churches were subverted, Aldred..erected another.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. iii. 65 These are his substance, sinewes, armes, and strength, With which he..Razeth your Cities, and subuerts your Townes.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 255 He easily recovered what ever had been conquered by..Mansfeldt,..and utterly subverted all that was unnecessary.

1724 A. Crossly Signification Most Things in Heraldry 17 The first Bearer of this Beast [sc. the cony], seemed..lucky in undermining and subverting Cities.

1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor lxxix. 265 Many villages were absorbed, the city Sipylus was subverted, and marshes were changed into lakes.

1850 P. Power tr. M. Orsini Life Blessed Virgin Mary xvi. 255 An alarming quaking of the earth, which subverted twenty towns in Asia.

b. transitive. In figurative context. Obsolete.

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1543 T. Becon New Yeares Gyfte sig. K.iii This one texte..is able to subuerte, ouertople, and throwe downe all the byldynge.

1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne xi. 636 It is manifest, that worshipping of images, is contrarie to the Lawe of nature. So that you see the foundation of this building already subuerted.

a1677 I. Barrow Of Love of God (1680) 267 To dissolve those sacred bands, by which its union is conteined, and to subvert the onely foundations of publick tranquillity.

1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 392 They began its destruction by subverting..the foundations of civil society itself.

1834 R. Halley Improved Version Creed 59 The imperishable spirit of the New Covenant..is the mighty weapon which will subvert the strong-holds of Satan.

a. transitive. To overthrow (a nation, government, ruler, etc.); to bring down, depose, put an end to; to defeat, vanquish. Also: to overcome (an ostensibly more powerful force). Now rare except as merged with sense 2c.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn

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to wend downa1400

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pervert?a1425

to put downa1425

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downthringc1430

overthwart?a1439

thringc1480

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precipitate?1528

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a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) vii. 119 Þe last emong þe foure propheteȝ..before telliþ þe stone beforkutt of þe hyll with outen hondes & all rewmeȝ subuertyng [L. regna omnia subvertentem].

1415 in 43rd Ann. Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. (1882) App. i. 591 in Parl. Papers (C. 3425) XXXVI. 1 Thai wolde subuert this londe.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 35 (MED) The yghes of God waken ouir the synnes of realmes for to chastice them or to subuerte [Fr. subuertir] them.

1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xiii To make an open insurreccyon and subuerte all the realme.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxxvii. B Thou knowest well, how the kinges of Assiria haue handled all the londes, that they haue subuerted.

1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes cxlv. 20 But he them all that wicked are, will vtterly subuert.

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. xxi. 389 Hee [sc. Scipio] subdued Africa, and subuerted Haniball.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 568 By things deemd weak Subverting worldly strong.

1731 tr. M.-A. de Gomez Belle Assemblée III. 238 Conspiracies carried on,..Commerce neglected, and every thing that could subvert a Monarchy prosecuted with the utmost Vigour.

1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 35 The Russian Government is..the most liable to be subverted by military seditions.

1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iv. i. 403 The inscriptions lead us to think that the dynasty subverted by the Mussulmans was of more recent origin.

1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi vi. 156 That the Pelopids did not simply subvert, or succeed to, a prior dynasty, but that they held a new dominion.

1974 J. Huston in Transatlantic Rev. Autumn 143 So these two soldiers go up and they think they'll lead one tribe against another and then they'll subvert the King and become King themselves.

b. transitive. To overturn (an established or existing practice, belief, rule, etc., or a set of these); to change completely (a state of things). Also: to displace, supersede. Also intransitive.

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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] > overthrow

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1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 58 The ministris by theyr pryde and orgueyll subuerte Iustice.

1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §1. m. 3 The ordre of all poletique rule was perverted, the lawes..broken, subverted and contempned.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 742/2 This cursed opynion, if it may contynewe a whyle, it wyll subvert all good lawes.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. T4^v After that he..With dreadfull fate Had vtterly subuerted his vnrighteous state.

1606 in J. D. Marwick Charters rel. Glasgow (1894) I. ii. 272 The mantenance of the thrie estaittis of parliament hes bene..almost subuertit..by the indirect abolischeing of the estait of bischoppis.

1609 D. Price Sauls Prohibition Staide sig. E3^v They [sc. Papists] maintaine, that they may eate their God, kill their king, subuert the Scriptures.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 30 To the end he might..have perverted the Prince, and subverted the true Religion established in England.

1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes Ded. p. iv Their Civil and Religious Liberties, which after having been artfully underminded by several preceding Princes, were at last totally subverted.

1741 Bp. J. Butler Serm. before House of Lords 20 Nor can this Obligation be denied formally upon any Principles, but such as subvert all other Obligations.

1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings 354 In order to subvert the plain and natural interpretation given by the Council to the orders of the Court of Directors.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 102 They have a power given to them, like that of the evil principle, to subvert and destroy.

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ix. 393 Our active powers..become Strong to subvert our noxious qualities.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. iii. v. 338 The strongest chemical affinities were thus readily subverted by the decomposing action of the pile.

1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. viii. 507 If the constitution of the British Indian empire were subverted, the civil and military services would be broken down.

1861 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilization Eng. II. iii. 259 James..attempted..to subvert the liberties of Scotland.

1919 G. F. Browne Venerable Bede vi. 105 All rules of truth and justice were so completely subverted that the memory of the existence of such virtues had disappeared.

1994 Times 29 Jan. 16/2 If the apostolic view on this is subverted by the General Synod, then the charge of unapostolic changes may be put.

c. transitive. To undermine without necessarily bringing down (an established authority, system, or institution); to attempt to achieve, esp. by covert action, the weakening or removal of (a government, political regime, etc.).

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1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory iv. 106 It being more in the power of the Governours than of the Subject..to preserve it [sc. Peace]... take heed..of any thing which tendeth to subvert or weaken Government.

1778 R. Robinson in tr. J. Claude Ess. Composition Serm. I. v. 274/1 (note) Jesus Christ and his apostles never attempted to subvert civil government.

1834 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 1 Feb. 105/1 It may be no easy matter to convince a man that his actions, every day he lives, are tending to subvert those institutions he holds most dear.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 67 These men addressed themselves to the task of subverting the treasurer's power.

1927 New Republic 12 Oct. 205/2 The rank and file have grown tired of the persistent effort of the Communists to subvert trade-union discipline.

1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy iii. xiv. 306 He..undertook special assignments..to subvert the pernicious influence of K.M.T. Fascist elements.

2010 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 56/1 ‘Foiling operations’ conducted by the intelligence agencies of..Western powers—programs designed to subvert the Iranian nuclear effort through sabotage.

a. transitive. To corrupt or pervert (a person, or a person's mind, soul, etc.); to turn (a person) away from a path or belief regarded as right or proper. Also in neutral or positive sense: to transform the beliefs or character of.

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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [verb (transitive)]

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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pervert or deprave

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Titus iii. 11 Schonye thou a man heretyk,..witinge for he that is such maner man is subuertid [L. subversus est], and trespassith [MS trespassid].

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §561 It [sc. wrath] reueth hym the quiete of his herte and subuerteth his soule.

c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 82 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 9 He askit petir, quhar-for he Subuertit men of þat cuntre.

a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 438 That the kynges minde By hym is subverted And so streatly coarted In credensyng his tales.

?1532 T. Elyot tr. Plutarch Educ. Children (new ed.) xiii. sig. F.ii^v There is nat lyuynge a thynge more mischeuous than flatterers,..subuertynge the yonge men with pernicious counsayle.

1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. vii. f. 20 He yat is siclike is subuertit and synnis.

1599 J. fitz Thomas Let. 14 Mar. in T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia (1633) ii. iii. 144 By their godly perswasions, hee was at that time reclaimed, and subverted to bee a good Catholike.

a1612 W. Fowler Tarantula of Love in Wks. (1914) I. 154 Fair eyes which..dois my saule subvert.

1715 A. A. Sykes Innocency Error 38 If he be subverted, yet 'twill be hard to prove Sin or Self-Condemnation upon a Man.

1760 T. Flloyd Bibliotheca Biographica III. at Xenocrates Finding him not to be wrought upon by presents and interested views, he endeavoured to subvert him by an affected contempt.

1824 J. Hall Expository Disc. Gospels xix. 300 Vain will be all the efforts of the enemy to subvert our souls.

1855 Evangelical Christendom 9 159/1 There resided from two to three hundred Protestants,..and I was grieved to hear of the successful efforts of the [Roman Catholic] priests to subvert them from their faith.

1914 Times 21 Oct. 7/5 These ringleaders..dispose of large means with which they are able to subvert workmen of their country engaged in the dockyard.

1956 W. H. Whyte Organization Man (1957) v. 58 Universal organization training..so effectively emphasises the group spirit that there is little danger that inductees will be subverted into rebelliousness.

2005 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 10 Dec. a15 The subtle and insidious attempts of socialism to subvert our youth through the subversive lyrics of John Lennon.

†b. transitive. To cause a person to lose (faith, hope, etc.). Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of)

benimc890

to do of ——eOE

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to bate of, from1399

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to turn out of ——1545

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to do out of ——1796

to cut out1815

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Tim. ii. 18 Philete..and Imeneus..felden doun fro the treuthe..and subuertiden [L. subverterunt] the feith of sum men.

a1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe) l. 16471 Yff he contynue in hys malys..to subuerten [L. subuertere] myn hope.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 89 (MED) Now hath He subuertid [Fr. subuerty] all thy power and vtterly made [voide] thi frustratyue hope.

c. transitive. To corrupt (a moral code, a concept, a person's outlook, etc.); to alter from what is right or proper; (also) to distort (truth). In neutral or positive sense: to transform, change.

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c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 48 (MED) Thys clennes envied the ennemye of man-kynde, wyllynge to subuerte yn her the purpos of clennes.

c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 236 (MED) The vngudly man subuertez, ouerturnez, truth be couetyse that he has.

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. G4^v Daniel is not yett come Which shall obtayne the roume Their fraudfull wayes to subuerte.

1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. xxvii. 234 Their tongue-ripe Satyrisme may more easily disturbe the truth of this world, then subuert it.

1639 G. Daniel Eclesiasticus in Poems (1878) III. 2 Hee..Promises mountaines, brings thee to his feast, And doth subvert thy Reason, in thy Tast.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. v. 21 For the poor Non-Conformists, by their hot pressing of those Indifferencies..utterly subverting the Faith in the important Points.

1775 R. Robinson tr. J. Saurin Serm. II. ii. 38 There are six sophisms..which our age hath brought forth for the purpose of subverting the truth.

1832 Biblical Repertory July 408 Putting principles into circulation, the tendency of which is to subvert all sound morality.

1868 J. S. Preston Virginia 12 Those powers which subvert the works of wisdom, and seek to eradicate the seeds of virtue.

1901 Anglo-Amer. Mag. Jan. 20 To positively unhinge and subvert the minds and morals of the multitude.

1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 177 The ease with which big-band jazz was subverted suggests how open an expression Negro music could become.

2007 H. H. Alonso Robert E. Sherwood ix. 288 He warned that power-hungry demagogues might subvert the people's desires.

a. transitive. To upset or overturn (an object); to break up or turn over (ground). Also figurative. Now rare.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)]

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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

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1479 Earl Rivers tr. Cordyal (Caxton) i. iv This puissant kyng, Xerses..subuerted the monteyns and couered the sees.

1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 10 §2 The Partie..whose Lande or Soile shalbe so herafter subverted and broken.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Homily ii. i. sig. Dd ij He..ouertourneth the tables of thexchaungers, subuerteth the seates of them that sold doues.

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. xvi. 372 There is another kind of Earthquake called Arietation..: Sometimes this hapned without any dammage..; other times meeting in cavernous places have subverted mountains.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1662 (1955) III. 316 The tempest of Wind..which subverted besids huge trees, many houses, innumerable Chimnies.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 131 They themselves contrive To rob the Honey, and subvert the Hive.

1718 tr. E. Lutwyche Rep. Resol. Court 1 564 It was unreasonable that the Plaintiff's Soil only should be subverted and destroyed for the Benefit of others.

1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) III. vi. 277 Antient revolutions..have subverted the earth.

1859 Illustr. Mag. 8 117/1 He walked slowly to the table, subverted a decanter with each hand, so as to let the last drops fall out.

1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 72 Laboured mounds, that a foot or a wanton stick may subvert.

1909 Atlantic Reporter 71 767/2 The said defendant..broke and entered the plaintiff's close in said Bangor, and then and there dug up and subverted the soil and earth.

†b. transitive. To evert (the eyelid). Obsolete. rare.

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the world > space > relative position > inversion > invert [verb (transitive)] > turn inside out > the eyelid

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1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxxiii Blere eyes whiche is whan the vnder lyd of the eye is subuerted.

5. transitive. Originally: to impair the functioning of (an organ); to alter (a normal physiological or a pathological process), usually injuriously; esp. to upset (the stomach); to suppress (the appetite). Cf. subversion n. 4. Now rare.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of stomach > cause stomach disorder [verb (transitive)]

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1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 112 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. It [sc. scammony] hurteth the harte,..subuerteth the stomache, taketh away appetyte, [etc.].

1620 T. Venner Via Recta 98 The sweet Orenges are not fit for sauce, because they subuert the appetite, and cause loathsomnesse in the stomacke.

1628 T. Venner Baths of Bathe 19 Ill and preposterous vse..[of the Bath waters] will weaken the stomacke, subuert the liuer, annoy the head and brest.

1665 G. Thomson Galeno-pale xiv. 67 Whereby it comes to pass that the Tone and Ferment of the Stomack is subverted.

1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation iv. 21 [The] humours..acquire a levain so pernicious, as to deprave and subvert the animal Faculty.

1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. I. iii. 208 That pernicious Custom of Whetting, under pretence of creating an Appetite, subverting the same.

a1771 H. Pemberton Course Chem. (1773) iii. 46 The medicines..are diversified in their effects. Some subvert the stomach.

1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 546/1 The violent struggles of the heart to surmount the obstacle subvert the general balance of the circulation.

1884 Therapeutic Gaz. 15 Apr. 148/2 The virus is eliminated from the blood as fast as it incubates, and before there is ever a sufficient accumulation to subvert the vital functions or greatly contaminate the blood, it is all eliminated.

1901 Clinique 22 682 It has a direct action upon the secretory process and thus stimulates the glandular function, while it subverts the incoordinate muscle excitement.

6. transitive. Originally Literary Criticism. To challenge and undermine (a conventional idea, form, genre, etc.), esp. by using or presenting it in a new or unorthodox way.

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1956 H. Kenner in Sewanee Rev. 64 588 What more logical than that Yeats should have modelled..his testament on the traditional collections of miscellaneous poems, and (as he always did when he touched a tradition) subverted the usual implications?

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 486/2 Weill's errant and loudly stated bass-line throwing up the odd chord that violently subverts the triteness of the ricky-ticky melody.

1989 in New Yorker 16 Jan. 26/3 An underground club form of entertainment which appropriates and subverts the images, fashion and music prevalent in mainstream culture.

1990 Boston Phoenix 27 Apr. c11/4 He painted lots of Standard gasoline stations and Norm's restaurants that..deconstructed and subverted the visual language of advertising and popular culture.

2005 A. Billson Buffy the Vampire Slayer ii. 18 Buffy the Vampire Slayer..would simultaneously embrace and subvert the cliches of slasher movies in a postmodern approach.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	subvert
释义	subvertv. Brit. /səbˈvəːt/, U.S. /səbˈvərt/ Forms: Middle English–1500s subuerte, Middle English–1600s subuert, 1500s subuart, 1500s subverte, 1500s–1600s subuarte, 1500s– subvert; Scottish pre-1700 subuert, pre-1700 subwert, pre-1700 1700s– subvert. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French subvertir; Latin subvertere. Etymology: < (i) Middle French subvertir (French †subvertir ) to raze, destroy completely (a town, building) (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman, 1291 in continental Old French), to trouble (a person) (1294), to overturn, change completely (an established practice, belief, rule, state of things) (1366), to corrupt (a person) (a1380), to cause a person to lose (power) (1422 in the passage translated in quot. a1500² at sense 3b), to overthrow (a nation) (1422 in the passage translated in quot. a1500 at sense 2a), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin subvertere to overturn, to cause the downfall of, ruin, to overthrow, destroy, to undermine, to upset, in post-classical Latin also to corrupt (a person), to cause (a person) to lose (faith) (Vulgate) < sub- sub- prefix + vertere to turn (see vert v.¹). Compare Old Occitan subvertir (c1300), Catalan subvertir (15th cent.), Spanish subvertir (late 14th cent.), Portuguese subverter (14th cent.), Italian sovvertere (first half of the 14th cent.).With the medical use in sense 5 compare slightly later subversion n. 4. †1. a. transitive. To raze (a building, town, etc.) to the ground; to destroy completely. Also intransitive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break down, demolish, or ruin spillc950 fellOE to cast downc1230 destroy1297 to turn up?c1335 to throw down1340 to ding downc1380 to break downa1382 subverta1382 underturn1382 to take downc1384 falla1400 to make (a building, etc.) plain (with the earth)a1400 voida1400 brittenc1400 to burst downc1440 to pull downc1450 pluck1481 tumble1487 wreck1510 defacea1513 confound1523 raze1523 arase1530 to beat downc1540 ruinate1548 demolish1560 plane1562 to shovel down1563 race?1567 ruin1585 rape1597 unwall1598 to bluster down16.. raise1603 level1614 debolish1615 unbuilda1616 to make smooth work of1616 slight1640 to knock down1776 squabash1822 collapse1883 to turn over1897 mash1924 rubble1945 to take apart1978 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xix. 29 Whenn forsoþ god hadde subuertid [L. subverteret] þe cyteȝ of þat regyoun. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 127 Subuertenge citees and defilenge holy places. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 163 The excellent Cite of troy for aye Subuertid and destrued was. 1513 Life Henry V (1911) 117 Some others labored to subuert and ouerthrowe the walls. ?1549 T. Becon Castell of Comforte sig. Dvi By this texte, they thynke they maye do, whatsoeuer pleaseth theym, saue or condemne, bynde or loose, holde vp or cast doune, buylde or subuerte. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 361 When those more ancient Churches were subverted, Aldred..erected another. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. iii. 65 These are his substance, sinewes, armes, and strength, With which he..Razeth your Cities, and subuerts your Townes. View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 255 He easily recovered what ever had been conquered by..Mansfeldt,..and utterly subverted all that was unnecessary. 1724 A. Crossly Signification Most Things in Heraldry 17 The first Bearer of this Beast [sc. the cony], seemed..lucky in undermining and subverting Cities. 1775 R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor lxxix. 265 Many villages were absorbed, the city Sipylus was subverted, and marshes were changed into lakes. 1850 P. Power tr. M. Orsini Life Blessed Virgin Mary xvi. 255 An alarming quaking of the earth, which subverted twenty towns in Asia. b. transitive. In figurative context. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1543 T. Becon New Yeares Gyfte sig. K.iii This one texte..is able to subuerte, ouertople, and throwe downe all the byldynge. 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne xi. 636 It is manifest, that worshipping of images, is contrarie to the Lawe of nature. So that you see the foundation of this building already subuerted. a1677 I. Barrow Of Love of God (1680) 267 To dissolve those sacred bands, by which its union is conteined, and to subvert the onely foundations of publick tranquillity. 1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 392 They began its destruction by subverting..the foundations of civil society itself. 1834 R. Halley Improved Version Creed 59 The imperishable spirit of the New Covenant..is the mighty weapon which will subvert the strong-holds of Satan. 2. a. transitive. To overthrow (a nation, government, ruler, etc.); to bring down, depose, put an end to; to defeat, vanquish. Also: to overcome (an ostensibly more powerful force). Now rare except as merged with sense 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn to-warpc888 overwarpeOE fallOE cumber1303 overthrowc1375 overturna1382 subverta1382 overwalta1400 sinka1400 to wend downa1400 tuyrec1400 reverse1402 tirvec1420 pervert?a1425 to put downa1425 cumrayc1425 downthringc1430 overthwart?a1439 thringc1480 subvertise1484 succumb1490 renverse1521 precipitate?1528 everta1538 wrake1570 ruinate1590 profligate1643 wreck1749 a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) vii. 119 Þe last emong þe foure propheteȝ..before telliþ þe stone beforkutt of þe hyll with outen hondes & all rewmeȝ subuertyng [L. regna omnia subvertentem]. 1415 in 43rd Ann. Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. (1882) App. i. 591 in Parl. Papers (C. 3425) XXXVI. 1 Thai wolde subuert this londe. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 35 (MED) The yghes of God waken ouir the synnes of realmes for to chastice them or to subuerte [Fr. subuertir] them. 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys i. f. xiii To make an open insurreccyon and subuerte all the realme. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxxvii. B Thou knowest well, how the kinges of Assiria haue handled all the londes, that they haue subuerted. 1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes cxlv. 20 But he them all that wicked are, will vtterly subuert. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. xxi. 389 Hee [sc. Scipio] subdued Africa, and subuerted Haniball. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 568 By things deemd weak Subverting worldly strong. View more context for this quotation 1731 tr. M.-A. de Gomez Belle Assemblée III. 238 Conspiracies carried on,..Commerce neglected, and every thing that could subvert a Monarchy prosecuted with the utmost Vigour. 1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 35 The Russian Government is..the most liable to be subverted by military seditions. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iv. i. 403 The inscriptions lead us to think that the dynasty subverted by the Mussulmans was of more recent origin. 1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi vi. 156 That the Pelopids did not simply subvert, or succeed to, a prior dynasty, but that they held a new dominion. 1974 J. Huston in Transatlantic Rev. Autumn 143 So these two soldiers go up and they think they'll lead one tribe against another and then they'll subvert the King and become King themselves. b. transitive. To overturn (an established or existing practice, belief, rule, etc., or a set of these); to change completely (a state of things). Also: to displace, supersede. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] > overthrow upturna1340 overturna1382 subvert1474 invert1548 overthrow1567 wrake1570 revolve1609 to pull down1625 overset1679 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. v. 58 The ministris by theyr pryde and orgueyll subuerte Iustice. 1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §1. m. 3 The ordre of all poletique rule was perverted, the lawes..broken, subverted and contempned. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 742/2 This cursed opynion, if it may contynewe a whyle, it wyll subvert all good lawes. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. ix. sig. T4^v After that he..With dreadfull fate Had vtterly subuerted his vnrighteous state. View more context for this quotation 1606 in J. D. Marwick Charters rel. Glasgow (1894) I. ii. 272 The mantenance of the thrie estaittis of parliament hes bene..almost subuertit..by the indirect abolischeing of the estait of bischoppis. 1609 D. Price Sauls Prohibition Staide sig. E3^v They [sc. Papists] maintaine, that they may eate their God, kill their king, subuert the Scriptures. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 30 To the end he might..have perverted the Prince, and subverted the true Religion established in England. 1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes Ded. p. iv Their Civil and Religious Liberties, which after having been artfully underminded by several preceding Princes, were at last totally subverted. 1741 Bp. J. Butler Serm. before House of Lords 20 Nor can this Obligation be denied formally upon any Principles, but such as subvert all other Obligations. 1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings 354 In order to subvert the plain and natural interpretation given by the Council to the orders of the Court of Directors. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 102 They have a power given to them, like that of the evil principle, to subvert and destroy. View more context for this quotation 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ix. 393 Our active powers..become Strong to subvert our noxious qualities. View more context for this quotation 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. iii. v. 338 The strongest chemical affinities were thus readily subverted by the decomposing action of the pile. 1845 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 I. viii. 507 If the constitution of the British Indian empire were subverted, the civil and military services would be broken down. 1861 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilization Eng. II. iii. 259 James..attempted..to subvert the liberties of Scotland. 1919 G. F. Browne Venerable Bede vi. 105 All rules of truth and justice were so completely subverted that the memory of the existence of such virtues had disappeared. 1994 Times 29 Jan. 16/2 If the apostolic view on this is subverted by the General Synod, then the charge of unapostolic changes may be put. c. transitive. To undermine without necessarily bringing down (an established authority, system, or institution); to attempt to achieve, esp. by covert action, the weakening or removal of (a government, political regime, etc.). ΚΠ 1673 R. Baxter Christian Directory iv. 106 It being more in the power of the Governours than of the Subject..to preserve it [sc. Peace]... take heed..of any thing which tendeth to subvert or weaken Government. 1778 R. Robinson in tr. J. Claude Ess. Composition Serm. I. v. 274/1 (note) Jesus Christ and his apostles never attempted to subvert civil government. 1834 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 1 Feb. 105/1 It may be no easy matter to convince a man that his actions, every day he lives, are tending to subvert those institutions he holds most dear. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 67 These men addressed themselves to the task of subverting the treasurer's power. 1927 New Republic 12 Oct. 205/2 The rank and file have grown tired of the persistent effort of the Communists to subvert trade-union discipline. 1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy iii. xiv. 306 He..undertook special assignments..to subvert the pernicious influence of K.M.T. Fascist elements. 2010 Atlantic Monthly Sept. 56/1 ‘Foiling operations’ conducted by the intelligence agencies of..Western powers—programs designed to subvert the Iranian nuclear effort through sabotage. 3. a. transitive. To corrupt or pervert (a person, or a person's mind, soul, etc.); to turn (a person) away from a path or belief regarded as right or proper. Also in neutral or positive sense: to transform the beliefs or character of. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [verb (transitive)] forbraidc888 besmiteeOE awemOE filec1175 soila1250 envenomc1300 beshrewc1325 shrew1338 corrumpa1340 corrupt1382 subvertc1384 tache1390 poison1395 infect?c1400 intoxicatec1450 deprave1482 corrup1483 rust1493 turkess?1521 vitiate1534 prevary?1541 depravate1548 fester?1548 turkish1560 wry1563 taint1573 disalter1579 prevaricate1595 sophisticate1597 invitiate1598 fashion1600 tack1601 debauch1603 deturpate1623 disaltern1635 ulcer1642 deboise1654 Neronize1673 demoralize1794 bedevil1800 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pervert or deprave bicharrea1100 crooka1340 subvertc1384 pervertc1425 traverse1438 overthwartc1450 perversec1475 deprave1482 crooken1552 preposterate1566 depravate1847 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Titus iii. 11 Schonye thou a man heretyk,..witinge for he that is such maner man is subuertid [L. subversus est], and trespassith [MS trespassid]. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §561 It [sc. wrath] reueth hym the quiete of his herte and subuerteth his soule. c1480 (a1400) St. Peter 82 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 9 He askit petir, quhar-for he Subuertit men of þat cuntre. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 438 That the kynges minde By hym is subverted And so streatly coarted In credensyng his tales. ?1532 T. Elyot tr. Plutarch Educ. Children (new ed.) xiii. sig. F.ii^v There is nat lyuynge a thynge more mischeuous than flatterers,..subuertynge the yonge men with pernicious counsayle. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. vii. f. 20 He yat is siclike is subuertit and synnis. 1599 J. fitz Thomas Let. 14 Mar. in T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia (1633) ii. iii. 144 By their godly perswasions, hee was at that time reclaimed, and subverted to bee a good Catholike. a1612 W. Fowler Tarantula of Love in Wks. (1914) I. 154 Fair eyes which..dois my saule subvert. 1715 A. A. Sykes Innocency Error 38 If he be subverted, yet 'twill be hard to prove Sin or Self-Condemnation upon a Man. 1760 T. Flloyd Bibliotheca Biographica III. at Xenocrates Finding him not to be wrought upon by presents and interested views, he endeavoured to subvert him by an affected contempt. 1824 J. Hall Expository Disc. Gospels xix. 300 Vain will be all the efforts of the enemy to subvert our souls. 1855 Evangelical Christendom 9 159/1 There resided from two to three hundred Protestants,..and I was grieved to hear of the successful efforts of the [Roman Catholic] priests to subvert them from their faith. 1914 Times 21 Oct. 7/5 These ringleaders..dispose of large means with which they are able to subvert workmen of their country engaged in the dockyard. 1956 W. H. Whyte Organization Man (1957) v. 58 Universal organization training..so effectively emphasises the group spirit that there is little danger that inductees will be subverted into rebelliousness. 2005 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 10 Dec. a15 The subtle and insidious attempts of socialism to subvert our youth through the subversive lyrics of John Lennon. †b. transitive. To cause a person to lose (faith, hope, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) benimc890 to do of ——eOE bedealc1000 disturbc1230 bereavec1275 reave?a1300 acquitc1300 benemec1300 deprivec1330 privea1382 subvertc1384 oppressc1395 abridgea1400 to bate of, from1399 lessa1400 nakena1400 dischargea1425 privatec1425 to bring outa1450 abatec1450 sever?1507 spulyie?1507 denude1513 disable1529 distrain1530 destituec1540 destitutec1540 defalk1541 to turn out of ——1545 discomfit1548 wipe1549 nude1551 disannul?a1556 bereft1557 diminish1559 benoom1563 joint1573 uncase1583 rid1585 disarm1590 visitc1592 ease1600 dispatch1604 unfurnisha1616 rig1629 retrench1640 unbecomea1641 disentail1641 cashier1690 twin1722 mulct1748 fordo1764 to do out of ——1796 to cut out1815 bate1823 deprivate1832 devoid1878 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Tim. ii. 18 Philete..and Imeneus..felden doun fro the treuthe..and subuertiden [L. subverterunt] the feith of sum men. a1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe) l. 16471 Yff he contynue in hys malys..to subuerten [L. subuertere] myn hope. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 89 (MED) Now hath He subuertid [Fr. subuerty] all thy power and vtterly made [voide] thi frustratyue hope. c. transitive. To corrupt (a moral code, a concept, a person's outlook, etc.); to alter from what is right or proper; (also) to distort (truth). In neutral or positive sense: to transform, change. ΚΠ c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 48 (MED) Thys clennes envied the ennemye of man-kynde, wyllynge to subuerte yn her the purpos of clennes. c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 236 (MED) The vngudly man subuertez, ouerturnez, truth be couetyse that he has. 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. G4^v Daniel is not yett come Which shall obtayne the roume Their fraudfull wayes to subuerte. 1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. xxvii. 234 Their tongue-ripe Satyrisme may more easily disturbe the truth of this world, then subuert it. 1639 G. Daniel Eclesiasticus in Poems (1878) III. 2 Hee..Promises mountaines, brings thee to his feast, And doth subvert thy Reason, in thy Tast. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. v. 21 For the poor Non-Conformists, by their hot pressing of those Indifferencies..utterly subverting the Faith in the important Points. 1775 R. Robinson tr. J. Saurin Serm. II. ii. 38 There are six sophisms..which our age hath brought forth for the purpose of subverting the truth. 1832 Biblical Repertory July 408 Putting principles into circulation, the tendency of which is to subvert all sound morality. 1868 J. S. Preston Virginia 12 Those powers which subvert the works of wisdom, and seek to eradicate the seeds of virtue. 1901 Anglo-Amer. Mag. Jan. 20 To positively unhinge and subvert the minds and morals of the multitude. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People xii. 177 The ease with which big-band jazz was subverted suggests how open an expression Negro music could become. 2007 H. H. Alonso Robert E. Sherwood ix. 288 He warned that power-hungry demagogues might subvert the people's desires. 4. a. transitive. To upset or overturn (an object); to break up or turn over (ground). Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > break up land [verb (transitive)] inhook1265 upbreak1382 becarvea1425 subvert1479 ripea1500 outrive1598 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 overcastc1230 overturnc1300 overthrowc1330 to-turna1382 overwhelm?a1400 tilta1400 tipa1400 welt?a1400 overtiltc1400 tirvec1420 reverse?a1439 devolvec1470 subvert1479 welter?a1505 renverse1521 tumble1534 verse1556 upturn1567 overwhirl1577 rewalt1587 subverse1590 overset1599 overtumble1600 walt1611 to fetch up1615 ramvert1632 treveer1636 transvolve1644 capsize1788 upset1806 keel1828 overwelt1828 pitch-pole1851 purl1856 1479 Earl Rivers tr. Cordyal (Caxton) i. iv This puissant kyng, Xerses..subuerted the monteyns and couered the sees. 1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 10 §2 The Partie..whose Lande or Soile shalbe so herafter subverted and broken. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Homily ii. i. sig. Dd ij He..ouertourneth the tables of thexchaungers, subuerteth the seates of them that sold doues. 1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. xvi. 372 There is another kind of Earthquake called Arietation..: Sometimes this hapned without any dammage..; other times meeting in cavernous places have subverted mountains. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1662 (1955) III. 316 The tempest of Wind..which subverted besids huge trees, many houses, innumerable Chimnies. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 131 They themselves contrive To rob the Honey, and subvert the Hive. View more context for this quotation 1718 tr. E. Lutwyche Rep. Resol. Court 1 564 It was unreasonable that the Plaintiff's Soil only should be subverted and destroyed for the Benefit of others. 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) III. vi. 277 Antient revolutions..have subverted the earth. 1859 Illustr. Mag. 8 117/1 He walked slowly to the table, subverted a decanter with each hand, so as to let the last drops fall out. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 72 Laboured mounds, that a foot or a wanton stick may subvert. 1909 Atlantic Reporter 71 767/2 The said defendant..broke and entered the plaintiff's close in said Bangor, and then and there dug up and subverted the soil and earth. †b. transitive. To evert (the eyelid). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > invert [verb (transitive)] > turn inside out > the eyelid subvert1547 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxxiii Blere eyes whiche is whan the vnder lyd of the eye is subuerted. 5. transitive. Originally: to impair the functioning of (an organ); to alter (a normal physiological or a pathological process), usually injuriously; esp. to upset (the stomach); to suppress (the appetite). Cf. subversion n. 4. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally atterc885 hurtc1200 marc1225 appair1297 impair1297 spilla1300 emblemishc1384 endull1395 blemishc1430 depaira1460 depravea1533 deform1533 envenom1533 vitiate1534 quail1551 impeach1563 subvert1565 craze1573 taint1573 spoil1578 endamage1579 qualify1584 stain1584 crack1590 ravish1594 interess1598 invitiate1598 corrupt1602 venom1621 depauperate1623 detriment1623 flaw1623 embase1625 ungold1637 murder1644 refract1646 depress1647 addle1652 sweal1655 butcher1659 shade1813 mess1823 puckeroo1840 untone1861 blue1880 queer1884 dick1972 forgar- the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of stomach > cause stomach disorder [verb (transitive)] subvert1565 1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 112 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. It [sc. scammony] hurteth the harte,..subuerteth the stomache, taketh away appetyte, [etc.]. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta 98 The sweet Orenges are not fit for sauce, because they subuert the appetite, and cause loathsomnesse in the stomacke. 1628 T. Venner Baths of Bathe 19 Ill and preposterous vse..[of the Bath waters] will weaken the stomacke, subuert the liuer, annoy the head and brest. 1665 G. Thomson Galeno-pale xiv. 67 Whereby it comes to pass that the Tone and Ferment of the Stomack is subverted. 1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation iv. 21 [The] humours..acquire a levain so pernicious, as to deprave and subvert the animal Faculty. 1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. I. iii. 208 That pernicious Custom of Whetting, under pretence of creating an Appetite, subverting the same. a1771 H. Pemberton Course Chem. (1773) iii. 46 The medicines..are diversified in their effects. Some subvert the stomach. 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 546/1 The violent struggles of the heart to surmount the obstacle subvert the general balance of the circulation. 1884 Therapeutic Gaz. 15 Apr. 148/2 The virus is eliminated from the blood as fast as it incubates, and before there is ever a sufficient accumulation to subvert the vital functions or greatly contaminate the blood, it is all eliminated. 1901 Clinique 22 682 It has a direct action upon the secretory process and thus stimulates the glandular function, while it subverts the incoordinate muscle excitement. 6. transitive. Originally Literary Criticism. To challenge and undermine (a conventional idea, form, genre, etc.), esp. by using or presenting it in a new or unorthodox way. ΚΠ 1956 H. Kenner in Sewanee Rev. 64 588 What more logical than that Yeats should have modelled..his testament on the traditional collections of miscellaneous poems, and (as he always did when he touched a tradition) subverted the usual implications? 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 486/2 Weill's errant and loudly stated bass-line throwing up the odd chord that violently subverts the triteness of the ricky-ticky melody. 1989 in New Yorker 16 Jan. 26/3 An underground club form of entertainment which appropriates and subverts the images, fashion and music prevalent in mainstream culture. 1990 Boston Phoenix 27 Apr. c11/4 He painted lots of Standard gasoline stations and Norm's restaurants that..deconstructed and subverted the visual language of advertising and popular culture. 2005 A. Billson Buffy the Vampire Slayer ii. 18 Buffy the Vampire Slayer..would simultaneously embrace and subvert the cliches of slasher movies in a postmodern approach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1382
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