† versationn.
Obsolete.
A turning over or backwards and forwards. Also attributive.
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the world > space > direction > [noun] > changing to face different direction or turning
turning1303
turnc1390
circumversion1578
conversion1594
head1607
versation1656
wheela1660
slewc1860
the world > space > relative position > inversion > [noun] > turning over (pages)
versation1656
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > inversion of natural order or total disorder > upset or overturn
walter1563
overturnc1592
renversinga1614
bouleversation1667
versation1716
bouleversement1814
whemmel1817
upset1866
upsettal1890
upsetment1893
1656 T. Blount Glossographia (following Cooper) Versation, a turning or winding.
1673 B. Oley in T. Jackson Wks. I. Pref. p. xxx Reader, if thou wilt believe thirty or forty years experience, or versation of this author, thou wilt find at every return new matter both of observation and delight in him.
1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 8 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Any other of the Rough Versation-Orders of our Dissenting Separatists.
1837 Fraser's Mag. 15 717 Requiring such perpetual versation of the pages backwards and forwards to connect one section with another.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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