[n. of action f. TRANSVERSE v.2] A turning into verse; concr. a metrical version of something.
(Quot. 1671 appears to combine this with prec.)
[1671. Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.), Rehearsal, I. (Arb.), 31. My first Rule is the Rule of Transversion, or Regula Duplex, Changing Verse into Prose, or Prose into verse.]
1796. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., I. 404. The following transversion of a passage from Ossian’s Carthon, may give an idea of the practicability of such metres in the English tongue.
1898. Q. Rev., Jan., 100. Bayes’s rules for the composition of plays …—the rule of transversion for instance.
