a. (sb.), adv. Obs. rare. [ad. L. contrāvers-us turned opposite, f. contrā opposite + versus, pa. pple. of vertĕre to turn.]
A. quasi-sb. The contraverse: the opposite, the converse. B. adv. ? In the opposite direction.
1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XIV. vii. She [Circe] sayd over us the contrauerse of the charme that she had sayde whan she transformed us.
c. 1535. Compl. too late maryed (1862), 7. Folyshe regardes … I kest over twarte, and eke contravers.
