v. Obs. [In sense 1, a. OF. aturne-r, -orner, -ourner, f. à to + turner:—L. tornāre to round off, f. tornus, Gr. τόρνος lathe; cf. ATOUR sb. and ATTORN.]
1. trans. To attire, array, dress, prepare fitly.
c. 1220. Sawles Warde, in Cott. Hom., 257. Ich iseo a sonde cumen … leofliche aturnet.
2. To turn. (a- is perh. for y- = ȝe: see A particle.)
a. 1230. Ancr. R., 284. [Er] ure Louerd … þuruh his grace, habbe hire swuch aturned and imaked.
c. 1330. Poem temp. Edw. II., li. Thus is the ordre of kniȝt Aturned up & down.
