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单词 intervert
释义

intervertv.

Etymology: < Latin intervertĕre, < inter between + vertĕre to turn. Compare French intervertir (Cotgrave, in sense 1).
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.

Derivatives

interˈverting n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
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.
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