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单词 enversed
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enversedadj.

Forms: late Middle English enuersed, 1600s enversed.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French enversé.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French enversé, past participle of enverser to overturn (1119 in Old French; < envers turned upside down, inverted (late 10th cent.) < classical Latin inversus inverse adj.) + -ed suffix1. Compare inverse adj. and later inversed adj.
Obsolete. rare.
Inverted; that is or has been turned upside down.
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the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adjective]
enversed?1440
inverse?1440
turned1513
overturned1561
inversed1592
inverted1598
topsy-turvy1618
downside up1683
headlong1713
upturned1816
Antipodean1853
upside down1866
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 319 (MED) The bough to sette is best in germynynge..But hem to sette enuersed [L. ne uirgulta inuersa deponas] nought to done is.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Occas. Verses (1665) 4 Her Waste's an envers'd Pyramis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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