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▪ I. † renverse, n. Obs. rare.
In 7 ran-.
[a. F. renverse, f. renverser: see renverse v.]
a. The reverse (of a coin).
b. The other side (of a case).
1658Osborn Adv. Son iii. §10 (1896) 67 Policy stamps them with the Image of the Devil, and on their Ranverse, Punishment and Shame. 1679V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. viii. 360 This will more evidently appear if we take the Ranverse of the case, thus.
▪ II. † renverse, a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. F. renversé.]
Reversed, turned the wrong way.
1653A. Wilson Jas. I 159 [He] was made to ride Renvers with his face to the horse tail.
▪ III. † renˈverse, v. Obs.
Also 6–7 renuers(e, 7–8 ranverse.
[ad. F. renverser, f. re- re- + enverser to overturn: see enversed and inverse, and cf. ramverse v.]
1. trans. To reverse (in lit. senses); to turn upside down, turn the wrong way, turn back.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 41 Whose shield he beares renverst, the more to heap disdayn. 1596Ibid. v. iii. 37 He..from him reft his shield, and it renverst. 1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 274 That English Priest Bridgewater, which cals himself Aquipontanus, ouerturning and re-enuersing [errata renuersing] his name with his conscience. 1624Sir T. Roe in Michaelis' Anc. Marb. (1882) 188 A halfe lyon of white marble, holding the head of a bull in the pawes, the neck renuersed. 1681R. Fleming Fulfill. Script. (1800) II. iii. 213 Their darts were ranversed and turned back by the violence of the wind.
2. To overturn or overthrow (lit. and fig.); to bring to confusion.
αc1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 61 Thus can God by his Divine Providence renverse the finest Practices and Pretences of mighty Rulers. 1639Drummond of Hawthornden Speech for Edinburgh Wks. (1711) 216 To settle things so..that they should not vary and change, were to renverse that order which God hath established. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy VIII. xix, The furious execution of which, renversing everything like thunder before it, has become a new æra to us of military improvements. 1776F. Burney Early Diary Let. Crisp, Sept., In a course of years the commerce of that world commonly renverses all these things topsy turvy.
βc1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. iii. xx, God forbid that a business of so high a consequence..should be ranvers'd by differences 'twixt a few privat subjects. 1671MacWard True Non-conf. 236 Plainly to ranverse both the freedom of making, and necessity of keeping all vowes. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. ii. 12 If there were a Town in Spain undermined by Coneys,..a third in Greece ranversed by Frogs. 1728Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 381 The sentence and decision of the Commission could not be opened and ranversed.
Hence † renˈversed, ppl. a. (see quot. 1656), † renˈversing vbl. n.
1656Blount Glossogr. s.v. Renversed, Renversed eyes, are taken for decayed eyes, or those that stand in the head. 1671[? MacWard] Case Accommodation Exam. 34 The renversings and persecutions of these late times. 1679J. Brown Life of Faith (1824) II. xx. 364 Esther was employed to effectuate the ranversing of the decree. |
