v. Obs. [ad. L. transvertĕre to turn across, f. trans across + vertĕre to turn.] trans. To turn across or athwart; to turn into something else, transform, convert; to turn about, reverse, overturn.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls) II. 191. Somme men hauenge senowes as transuertede and ouercrossede thro alle the body, haue bene of grete myȝhte.
c. 1450. Craft of Lovers, 419. Why mens langage wol procure and transuert The will of women ard virgines innocent?
1552. Huloet, s.v. B, In composicions B. is transuerted into these letters C. F. G. P. V. Ibid., Preposterouse, out of order, overthwarth, transuerted.
1608. Dod & Cleaver, Expos. Prov. xi.–xii. 143. They usually transuert their fauor and iustice, shewing mercy where they should exercise seuerity, and practising cruelty where they should shew mercy.
1651. Howell, Venice, 185. To transvert the Keys of Paradise into the Keys of a Prison.
a. 1660. Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.), III. 80. I maye lawfully saye, as our Saviour saide unto Saule,… transuertinge onely his name: Vllacke, Vllacke, cur me persequeris?
Hence † Transvertible a. Obs., capable of being transverted.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, iii. 49. In the little nebbe or fructifying principle, the motion is regular, and not transvertible, as to make that ever the leaf, which nature intendeth the root.
