1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 1022 This is a shamefull wresting of the Scripture, and inuerting of the manifest doings of our Sauiour.

1602 J. Colleton Iust Def. Slandered Priestes iv. 158 His refusing of our appeale..his strange inuerting of our words.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 60 Reflection being nothing but an inverting of the Rays.

1701 J. Le Clerc Harmony of Evangelists 575/2 I confess that Matthew has frequently such invertings of the Order, in rehearsing of the Sermons of Christ.

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 290 It puzzles us to account for the inverting of compasses by lightning.

1852 H. Melville Pierre xviii. 356 Some imaginatively heterodoxical men are often surprisingly twitted upon their willful inverting of all common-sense notions.

1897 Eng. Mechanic 27 Aug. 21/2 Position angles prove very misleading for amateurs, with the curious invertings of north, south, east, and west Occurring when telescope points to the Pole.

1906 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 23 Oct. 2197/2 Said cleaner having an operating edge adapted to..scrape over said bottom wall during the inverting of the bucket.

1940 Railway Signaling Jan. 46/1 The inverting of relays or otherwise tilting them in order to close the contacts..is prohibited.

2006 Financial Times 27 Sept. 46/2 Despite tightening interest rates and the inverting of the yield curve in the US, liquidity has remained strong.

1614 D. Tuvill Dove & Serpent xiii. 78 The parts of this inverting kinde of Confutation are two. For first, there is a Negation of the signe, and then a reason of this Negation.

1689 C. Mather Disc. Witchcraft 37 in Memorable Provid. Watch..against the Inverting Method of the Devil. One while the Devil will endeavour to carry us on from Lesser sins to Greater sins.

a1753 G. Berkeley in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. G. Berkeley (1871) 477 W^t judgement would he make of uppermost and lowermost who had always seen through an inverting glass?

1893 J. Cagney tr. R. von Jaksch Clin. Diagnosis (ed. 2) v. 144 The chief are the tryptic, fat-splitting, and emulsifying..and inverting ferments.

1894 Athenæum 4 Aug. 165/3 To represent the objects as they would be seen in an inverting telescope.

1948 Electronics July 120/2 Two inverting or summing amplifiers in the computer unit..are patched to the servo as illustrated.

2011 Economist 28 May 85/2 The toy had..an inverting mirror inside one of the tubes.

1709 A. Hill Full Acct. Ottoman Empire xix. 161 A stately Gallery..winding in and out exactly as we paint a folding Serpent... The inverting Floor..consists of spacious Marble Squares.

1801 T. Denman Introd. Pract. Midwifery (ed. 3) xv. 515 The recession of the inverting uterus was mistaken for its contraction.

1898 H. F. Keenan Conflict with Spain ii. iv. 296 There was a slight gap in the inverting ranks, where the ground rose to a knoll.

1910 Daily Chron. 21 Apr. 9/1 Trying at the same time to negotiate an inverting umbrella, and to clutch at a flying hat.

1981 Jrnl. Cell Biol. 91 762/2 Cells and cell clusters isolated from preinversion embryos go through a sequence of shape changes equivalent to those seen in intact inverting embryos.

2003 W. Micheo & A. Esqenazi in W. R. Frontera Rehabilit. of Sports Injuries xv. 307/1 Tape..provides little or no measurable support to the inverting ankle.