† permuev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To change completely.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > cause sudden or complete change [verb (transitive)]
permute?a1425
permue?c1450
revolutionize1798
revolution1805
revolutionalize1868
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 167 Forto make her gentill and small and faire bodied, she clothed her in a symple cote hardye, not doubled, and it was cold wynter, and gret froste and gret wynde, and that permuued her coloure [Fr. lui permua la couleur].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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v.?c1450- the learned
- the leash
- the least
- the lees
- the left
- the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing
- the leftward
- the leftward of
- the legitimate drama
- the leisured class(es
- the length of
- the length of a street
- the lengthway of
- the less
- the less the
- the lesser evil
- the lesser infortune
- the lesser of two evils
- the lesser rosary
- the letter
- the letter of the law
- the level
- the levels
- the liar
- the lie