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reverted, ppl. a.|rɪˈvɜːtɪd|
[f. revert v.]
1. Turned backwards or the wrong way; bent back; reversed.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. iii. ii. 126 Ant. Where France? Dro. In her forhead, arm'd and reuerted, making warre against her heire. 1621Quarles Argalus & P. i. Wks. (Grosart) III. 242/1 Downe each side of his reverted chinne A lock of black neglected haire. 1681Grew Musæum ii. §iii. iv. 237 The lesser ground Mosse with Reverted Leaves. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 91. 2/2 We may observe a Reverted Scene. 1765Treat. Dom. Pigeons 112 Its feathers stand all reverted. 1845Encycl. Metrop. II. 88 This reverted series..may be put under a very elegant and remarkable form. 1870Henfrey Bot. §880 In some cases it has been found that the reverted or pure shoots bore perfect seeds.
2. Of the eyes, etc.: Directed backwards.
1741–2Gray Agrip. 198 Yielding modesty, And oft reverted eye. 1754― Pleasure 28 With forward and reverted eyes. 1815Coleridge Time, Real & Imag. 7 Yet ever runs she with reverted face, And looks and listens for the boy behind. 1858Longfellow Jew. Cemetery Newport xiv, Thus for ever with reverted look The mystic volume of the world they read. 1870Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 333 The bull..looking back with reverted horn and earnest eye. |