ppl. a. [f. CONVERT v. + -ED1.]
† 1. Turned, turned back; cf. CONVERSION 3.
1618. Chapman, Hesiod, II. 434. Fifty days after heaven’s converted heat … Then grows the navigable season fit.
2. That has turned or been brought over to a religious faith or profession, whether from a different religion or from irreligious life.
1640. Bp. Hall, Episc., I. v. 21. Countenancing and incouraging the converted Governours of the Church.
1677. W. Hubbard, Narrative, II. 74. One Converted Indian that revealed the Plot.
1762–71. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), III. 198. Of all his works, Sir Godfrey was most proud of the converted Chinese at Windsor.
1851. Missionary, I. 207. A brother and a sister … the former a converted, the latter a heathen, native.
Mod. A converted prize-fighter. The preacher was a converted Jew.
3. Changed into something else; see CONVERT v. 12. † b. Reduced: see 14.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., III. II. xiv. (ed. 7), 397. The summe of the two converted longitudes added together is 1247.
1865. Dockyard Accts. (Blue Bk. 8. 465–1). The curvature and bevelling required in a large portion of the converted timber.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 895. Cemented or converted steel … is produced by the carbonisation of wrought iron.
1884. [see CONVERT v. 12 d].
