rare. [n. of action fr. L. transvert-ĕre to turn across, TRANSVERT; cf. conversion, inversion, etc.] The action of turning across or athwart; intersection; a turning into something else, conversion, perversion, transformation; transposition.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Transversion, a turning away or crosse, a traversing, or going athwart.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, i. 96. Nor shall we take in the mystical Tau, or the Crosse of our blessed Saviour, which having in some descriptions an Empedon or crossing foot-stay, made not one single transversion.
1671. [see next].
1716–20. Lett. fr. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), I. 9. As if they intended a Transversion of Christendom to its first Paganism.
1870. Lowell, Study Wind., 331. A transversion common with him.
