单词 | evert |
释义 | evertv. a. transitive. To overthrow (a city, temple, enemy, etc.). Also intransitive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > capsize or upset > overthrow in ruins or to destruction to-warpc888 overwarpeOE to cast downc1230 to throw down1340 everse?a1425 thringc1480 tumble1487 evert1533 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. App. i. 256 Legionis of futemen to evert and cast doun þe foirsaid Ciete to þe ground. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. xix. f. xxiiiv/1 Of this town remanis nocht... For it wes euertit [1531 brocht to rewyn] be the Danis. 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 311 It is easier to euert or disturbe, then to plant or establish. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 50 For feare after he had euerted their foes..hee woulde rauen vp them. 1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-martyrologia 157 King Ethelbert Having a mighty force, went to evert The Chestrian City. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (at cited word) To Evert, to turn upside down, to overthrow, &c. b. transitive. figurative. To overthrow (an empire, government, etc.); to upset (a judgement, argument, doctrine, law, etc.); to frustrate (a purpose). Also: to overthrow (a person) in argument (rare). Obsolete (Scottish in later use). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn to-warpc888 overwarpeOE fallOE cumber1303 overthrowc1375 overturna1382 subverta1382 overwalta1400 sinka1400 to wend downa1400 tuyrec1400 reverse1402 tirvec1420 pervert?a1425 to put downa1425 cumrayc1425 downthringc1430 overthwart?a1439 thringc1480 subvertise1484 succumb1490 renverse1521 precipitate?1528 everta1538 wrake1570 ruinate1590 profligate1643 wreck1749 a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 128 The suttylty of one sergeant schal everte & destroy al the jugementys of many wysemen before tyme receyvyd. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idolatry ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 211 And the noble Empire of Greece clean everted. a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 281 He began..to evert his fathers..testament. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 245 And chiefly his great attempts against Germany turning to nothing, euerted that purpose. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. viii. xxx. 303 Then hath the master of horsemen..everted and overthrowne both Dictatours Majestie and Militarie discipline. a1681 G. Wharton Fasts & Festivals in Wks. (1683) 11 Antiochus Epiphanes..everted the true worship of God. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. vii. 244 We have everted that Objection. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 175 The Jurisdiction of the Judge is not yet everted and overthrown. 1849 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 66 652 I am overthrown—everted—subverted—the contradiction is flagrant. 1872 J. Walker Theol. & Theologians Scotl. (1888) iv. 100 They clearly evert the fundamentals. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > invert [verb (transitive)] to-wendc893 whelvec1000 to turn down?c1335 to turn up?c1335 whelmc1340 overturna1382 to turn overa1400 wholve14.. inverse?a1425 reverse?a1425 overwhelvec1450 overvolvea1522 transverse1557 evert1566 topsy-turn1573 topsy-turve1603 invert1610 upturn1610 whave1611 topsy-turvy1626 whemmel1684 cant1850 upend1868 flip-flop1924 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [verb (transitive)] > throw into utter disorder or upset to-turna1382 everse?a1425 over-terve?a1425 bestourn1484 renverse1521 transverse1557 evert1566 walter1571 topsy-turn1573 topsy-turve1603 topsy-turvy1626 bouleverse1673 whemmel1721 reverse1768 upset1818 to knock galley-west1875 topsy-turvify1886 topsy-turvyize1893 1566 J. Knox Serm. f. 4 Who soeuer..doth nothing but euert & turne vpside downe the very throne of God. 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. vi. sig. H4v The very thought Euerts my Soule, with Passion. View more context for this quotation 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 182 To end the meale with much drinke, doth by euerting the concoction, cause eructations. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. Prol. 6 There did he..evert it [sc. a tub], invert it, subvert it. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > turn (something) to a (different) direction > turn away awendOE to turn awaya1225 wryc1400 reversec1540 evert1569 avert1578 nurture1627 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > turn aside from > cause to writhea1400 wrya1400 reflecta1500 reverta1500 withstand1508 reversec1540 declinea1555 evert1569 deflecta1575 divert1609 bias1628 blank1640 avert1697 shunt1858 sidetrack1887 ride1908 1569 S. Batman Christall Glasse Christian Reform. sig. Q.iii. The tiranus threatning of princes and magistrates once able to euert or turne vs from the deuine preceptes of our only Lord and sauiour Iesus. 1650 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (1662) i. viii. 141 The Will is thus everted from the fore-mentioned Objects. 4. transitive. To turn (a part of the body), esp. outwards or inside out, by natural means or by manipulation. Cf. eversion n. 2a, everted adj. 2.Often used with reference to the eyelids or the foot. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inversion > invert [verb (transitive)] > turn inside out turn?c1475 evert1578 to turn outa1585 invert1598 flipe1788 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man iv. f. 59 It [sc. the third muscle of the foot] marcheth from the outer partes towardes the inner,..beyng yet at last implanted to the inside of the heele, and hauyng in office to euert the foote to the interiour partes. 1664 W. Drage Physical Nosonomy 345 Whatsoever here is swallowed down, is presently cast up again by Vomit, either because it cannot pass, or because Vapours arising hereform disturb and evert the Stomach. 1821 T. Sandwith Observ. Med. & Surg. 99 The cheeks drawn downward in such a manner as to evert the lower eye-lids. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 38/1 The gullet and part of the stomach [of starfish] are usually everted, protruded, and applied round the object to be swallowed. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xviii. 281 Muscles for everting the sack, and for closing or opening the orifice. 1879 G. C. Harlan Eyesight v. 51 It is a very simple and easy thing to evert the eyelid. 1915 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 May 846/1 On everting the lower lid the region of the canaliculus was seen to be greatly enlarged and swollen. 1986 R. Bakker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) x. 206 Some modern reconstructions done in the 1960s and 1970s still portray dinosaurs everting their knees and planting their hind feet down, wide-set, with right and left hind paws spread far out to the side—like enormous lizards. 2005 F. Benazzo et al. in N. Maffulli et al. Tendon Injuries xix. 179/1 Peroneus brevis everts the foot, and peroneus longus everts the foot and lowers the first metatarsal. 2007 W. C. Aird Endothelial Biomed. 33 A second, rhynchocoelan circulatory system is used to perfuse the head and proboscis and also functions as a hydrostat to evert the proboscis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1533 |
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