单词 | intervert |
释义 | † intervertv. Obsolete. 1. a. To divert another way, or put to a use other than that intended; to alienate, misapply, misuse. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > pervert miswendc1325 misturna1382 pervertc1390 transpose1509 wrestc1530 bend1531 crooken1552 intervert1603 invert1603 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1092 The good never intervert, nor miscognize the favour and benefit which they have received. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 837/1 With an intent to interuert the inheritance and honour of the O-Neale another way. 1648 Acts Gen. Assembly (1682) 477 Where the collection is more, it is hereby specially inhibited and discharged that any part thereof be retained or interverted to any other use whatsomever. b. esp. To divert to one's own use or profit; to appropriate, embezzle. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > embezzlement or misappropriation > embezzle or misappropriate [verb (transitive)] purloinc1475 embezzle1585 intervert1600 peculate1715 misappropriate1825 eat1849 to knock downa1854 malversate1881 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. lxxii. 138 Yet would there not be so much gained and gotten by comming thus betweene, and interverting the land [L. agro intercipiendo]. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Titus i. 10) Interverting, embezeling their masters estates. 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) Pref. Lest I..should defraud him, and intervert any part thereof. 1850 Fraser's Mag. 41 529 Bentley was the first among modern critics—though his adversaries accused him herein of ‘interverting’ Neveletus—to discover the merits of the poet. 2. To give a different turn to; to change, invert. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > change back [verb (transitive)] > to opposite convert1612 interverta1639 obvert1646 refund1665 reverse1944 a1639 H. Wotton View Life & Death Duke of Buckingham in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 99 The Duke getting knowledge..interverted the bargain, and gave the poor Widow for them five hundred pounds. 1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 261 The Cordeliers know well the danger of interverting the order of succession. 1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 61 Interverted, abridged, mutilated, and often reversing the sense of the original. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > embezzlement or misappropriation > [noun] misnimming?c1225 embezzlement1548 malversationc1550 falsity1581 misapplication1607 interverting1614 peculate1617 peculation1658 abstracting1669 plunderage1700 interversiona1754 conveyancing1754 misappropriation1794 abstraction1823 defalcation1832 malappropriation1848 teeming and lading1859 boodlery1886 bobol1907 chop-chop1966 liberation1966 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxiii. §4. 572 The interuerting of some Treasures by Belosus. 1660 in W. Crookshank Hist. Church Scotl. (1749) I. Introd. 59 The prejudice the church doth suffer by the interverting of the vaking stipends. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < v.1600 |
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