† transvertv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To turn across or athwart; to turn into something else, transform, convert; to turn about, reverse, overturn.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)]
wendOE
forshapeOE
workOE
awendOE
makec1175
turna1200
forwenda1325
change1340
shape1362
transmewc1374
transposec1380
puta1382
convertc1384
exchangea1400
remue?a1400
makea1425
reduce?a1425
removec1425
resolvea1450
transvertc1450
overchangec1480
mew1512
transmutea1513
wring1524
reduct1548
transform1556
innovate1561
metamorphose1576
transume1579
metamorphize1587
transmove1590
transchangea1599
transfashion1601
deflect1613
fordo1624
entail1628
transmutate1632
distila1637
to make much (also little, something, nothing, etc.) of1637
transqualify1652
unconvert1654
simulate1658
spend1668
transverse1687
hocus-pocus1774
mutate1796
fancy1801
to change around1871
metamorphosize1888
catalyse1944
morph1996
the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > lie across [verb (transitive)] > set across
transvertc1450
thwarta1529
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > seduce
sardc950
jape1382
transvertc1450
seducec1560
debauch1711
betray1766
to do over1823
make1910
to race off1965
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > arrange in sequence or series [verb (transitive)] > reverse natural or proper order
misturna1350
inverse?a1425
invert1533
transvert1552
preposterate1566
retrograde1582
rencounter1689
transverse1738
c1450 Craft of Lovers 419 Why mens langage wol procure and transuert The will of women and virgines innocent?
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 191 Somme men hauenge senowes as transuertede and ouercrossede thro alle the body, haue bene of grete myȝhte.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at B In composicions, B. is transuerted into these letters C. F. G. P. V.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum at B Preposterouse, out of order, overthwarth, transuerted.
1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. Prov. xi-xii. 143 They usually transuert their fauor and iustice, shewing mercy where they should exercise seuerity, and practising cruelty where they should shew mercy.
1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 185 To transvert the Keys of Paradise into the Keys of a Prison.
a1660 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) III. 80 I maye lawfully saye, as our Saviour saide unto Saule,..transuertinge onely his name: Vllacke, Vllacke, cur me persequeris?
Derivatives
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?16.. in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1864)
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