a. [f. SUBVERT v. + -ED1.]
1. Overturned, overthrown.
1749. Johnson, Van. Hum. Wishes, 216. Did no subverted Empire mark his End?
1776. Pennant, Tour Scot., in 1772, II. I. 241. Beneath one foot, a subverted vase, expressive a her character as a nymph of the fountains.
1822. Mrs. Plunket, in C. Butler, Hist. Mem. Eng. Cath. (ed. 3), IV. 336. He prefers a protestant establishment and an unimpaired state to a roman catholic establishment and a subverted one.
2. Her. Reversed, turned in a direction contrary to the usual one.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. xiv. 340/2. Reversed, Everted, Subverted, Subvertant, or Debased: is when a thing from its proper nature and use, is turned over, or downwards. Ibid., II. xviii. 454/2. Party per pale, A. and G. three Cressants subverted in pale O.
