pervertv.

Brit.

/pəˈvəːt/, U.S.

/pərˈvərt/

Forms: Middle English perverte, Middle English perwert, Middle English–1500s paruert, Middle English–1500s peruerte, Middle English–1600s peruert, Middle English– pervert, 1500s peruarte, 1500s pervart; Scottish pre-1700 pervert (past participle), pre-1700 perwert, pre-1700 1700s– pervert.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pervertir, parvertir; Latin pervertere.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman purvertir, pervertir, parvertir, etc., and Middle French parvertir, Middle French, French pervertir to cause to change for the worse (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman; late 12th cent. in Old French), to turn away from the right course (c1170), to falsify (documents) (c1190), to lead astray, corrupt (second half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), to distort (a text) (end of the 12th cent.), to distort (meaning) (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), to distort (justice) (1359), (of things) to become corrupted (1608) and its etymon classical Latin pervertere to turn round or about, to turn the wrong way, to distort, misrepresent, to cause to deviate from the right opinion, to corrupt, lead astray, to overturn, upset, to subvert, ruin, destroy < per- per- prefix + vertere to turn (see vert v.¹). Compare Old Occitan pervertir (1279 or earlier; Occitan pervertir), Spanish pervertir (late 14th cent.), Portuguese perverter (16th cent.), Italian pervertire (a1292).

1. To turn aside (a process, action, text, etc.) from a correct state, course, or aim.

a. transitive. To interfere with or distort (a correct order or process); to impede, thwart (justice, etc.). Chiefly Law in later use, esp. in to pervert the course of justice (an indictable offence under common law in the U.K.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (transitive)]

forteeOE

fortihtOE

bicharrea1000

perverta1382

faitc1430

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seduce1477

seduec1485

seduct1490

wry1563

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (transitive)] > from justice

perverta1382

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xxvii. 19 Corsed [is he] þat peruerteþ [a1425 L.V. v.r. turneth vniustly; L. pervertit] doom of comylynge, faderlees child, & wedewe.

a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 921 (MED) Þe whelpus signifyen heretycus y-wys, þat wollen..desire To peruert þe lawe, for couetyse.

1483 Rolls of Parl. VI. 240/2 The ordre of all poletique Rule was perverted.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xiii. 10 Thou ceasest not to pervert the strayght wayes off the lorde.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 181 That will peruert the concoction, and cause the meats to corrupt in the stomack.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 254 The Symetry whereof being causally [perh. read casually] or purposely perverted.

1717 Hist. Rise & Fall Ct. Hotspur 35 He told the Magistrates of the Capital that they perverted Justice.

1783 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. (new ed.) II. 76 The peristaltic motion of the whole canal is disturbed or perverted.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 127 Men utterly strange in speech and feeling..perverted the course of justice.

1920 Eng. Hist. Rev. 35 171 The king's thane who takes a bribe to pervert justice has to pay the king's ‘overhernesse’.

1969 MLN 84 707 Hagen the vassal perverts order time and time again by acting according to his own wishes and not those of his master, Gunther.

1994 P. J. Richardson et al. Archbold on Criminal Pleading II. 1087 It is a common law misdemeanour to pervert the course of public justice.

b. transitive. To turn aside (a text, argument, concept, etc.) from the correct meaning, use, or purpose; to misapply, misconstrue, distort.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)]

crooka1340

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drawc1450

miswrest?a1475

bewrya1522

wry?1521

to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529

writhea1533

wrest1533

invert1534

wring?1541

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violent1549

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train1551

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throw1558

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to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599

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monstrify1617

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vex1678

refract1700

warp1717

to put a force upon1729

twist1821

ply1988

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > pervert

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c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2379 If thow do hem bountee, they wol peruerten it in to wikkednesse.

?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 390 (MED) Now þei peruerte þe liȝt of kunnyng into derknes wiþ þe blyndnes of pride.

1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) ii. xliii. 49 They peruertyn hooly Scripture by fals vnderstandynge.

1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aviii The Supper of the Lord is peruerted, and not vsed after Christes institucyon.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 83 They peruert foundations, and will not bestow the Bequeathers free almes.

1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 118 It peruerts, it disanulls the very series, and substance of the Scripture.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Dij He has perverted my Meaning by his Glosses.

1789 D. Rittenhouse Lucy Sampson iii. ii You must know, how greatly you pervert my words.

1849 R. Cobden Speeches 9 What I stated with reference to the great mass of the French people last year was perverted.

1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) x. 237 That term has been so perverted by loose usage that it is practically valueless.

1990 Ess. in Crit. 40 264 Scepticism has been interpreted, used, modified & indeed perverted in many different ways.

c. transitive. To deflect, divert from a regular course. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > obviate > prevent the occurrence of or avert

werec925

withsitc1300

shun1338

to turn awaya1382

forfend1382

declinec1430

stopa1538

divert1548

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withturn1563

antevert1583

avert1586

pervert1594

deprive1627

averruncate1663

stave1664

to stop off1891

1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. H2^v The windes thwarting alteration, fitly resembling the crosse course of fortunes wheele in peruerting humane actions.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 151 Let's follow him, and peruert the present wrath He hath against himselfe.

1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer ii. i. 22 Reflect upon the horror of..perverting me from the road of Virtue, in which I have trod thus long, and never made one Trip.

1766 Considerations Scheme Communication Hull & Liverpool 12 Should the Navigation be perverted from the River into the Canal, there will be no Tonnage or Fund to support the Locks.

1786 R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus 22 The springs..return to their ancient channels, when the causes that perverted them are withdrawn.

1847 E. Bulwer-Lytton Word to Public 51 There is not a single attempt to create for the criminals any interest..or to pervert for one instant the channels of sympathy from their legitimate source.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 188 The English world at times betrayed a restiveness in the walled pathway of virtue; for, alas, it closely neighbours the French..but it is not perverted for long.

1993 V. Makowsky Susan Glaspell's Cent. Amer. Women 53 The life force always seeks expression, even if it is forced to take an alternate channel that perverts it from its true potential.

†d. intransitive with reflexive meaning. To become corrupted. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (intransitive)] > be perverted

pervert1635

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. i. 5 Blessings unus'd pervert into a Wast, As well as Surfeits.

†2. transitive. To turn upside down, overturn, or upset; to change for the worse; to subvert, ruin, or destroy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn

to-warpc888

overwarpeOE

fallOE

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overturna1382

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overwalta1400

sinka1400

to wend downa1400

tuyrec1400

reverse1402

tirvec1420

pervert?a1425

to put downa1425

cumrayc1425

downthringc1430

overthwart?a1439

thringc1480

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succumb1490

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precipitate?1528

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profligate1643

wreck1749

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. pr. i. 14 Fortune..hath perverted the cleernesse and the estat of thi corage.

c1475 Mankind (1969) 386 (MED) All þe menys xull be sought To perverte my condycyons and brynge me to nought.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 34 (MED) Salomon..helde it peacibly aftir his dissease vnto the tyme that fleschely delectes peruertid his wisedom.

1543 G. Joye George Ioye confuteth Winchesters Articles 9 So setting the carte before the horse, and..like an vngodly gardener to peruert and turne the rotes of his plantes and herbes vpward.

c1560 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxiv. 53 Ȝour play [is] sone peruertit.

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Peruert, ouerthrowe, or turne up side downe.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pervert, to overthwart, to turn upside down; to subvert, corrupt, destroy, &c.

†a. transitive. To turn (a person) away from a religious belief regarded as true, to one held to be false. Opposed to convert v. 9. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > renounce (God or Christ) [verb (transitive)] > make

perverta1425

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) 1 Cor. Prol. 338 Summe weren peruertid of eloquence of filosofie ful of wordis; othere men weren led in to the sect of the lawe of Jewis.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 224 He pervertis oure pepull.

a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) 10 (MED) Þe Saxones..peruertyd alle þe pepul þat in þat place dwellide.

1520 Chron. Eng. iv. f. 38^v/2 He was perverted by the heresy of the Ariens.

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue Brief Descr. sig. ☛iij^v To peruert and turne from the truth xii godly Christians which were Martyred.

1666 E. Mountagu in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 8 If the young Lord was a strict and a grounded Papist there was some danger my Lady Dorothy might bee perverted.

1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. ii. 225 They were most of 'em Irene's creatures, whom she had perverted to idolatry.

1770 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. (1772) II. 106 It seems that they have been rather perverted than converted.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 87 Walker..with some fellows and undergraduates whom he had perverted, heard mass daily in his own apartments.

1897 Dict. National Biogr. at Rupert, Prince She feared that her son might be perverted to catholicism.

b. transitive. gen. To turn aside (a person, the mind, etc.) from right opinion or action; to lead astray; to exercise a harmful influence on; to misguide; to corrupt.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pervert or deprave

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depravate1847

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pervert or deprave > judgement, ways, etc.

pervertc1425

debauch1664

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 4882 (MED) He was..of wil inmvtable Vp-on what þing he onys set his herte, Þat doubilnes myȝt hym nat peruerte.

c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 237 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 353 Hir..þat þis wichcrafte has done, & peruertis thocht and wil of al þat treutht giffis hir til.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 321 Ȝiftis blyndith þe yen of iugis And peruertith or turnith into wers wise men.

1593 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 172 Seminarie Priests, Jhesuits..sent hither to pervert such as are dutiefull and well inclyned.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 3 How Hee [sc. Satan] in the Serpent had perverted Eve, Her Husband shee.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 111. ⁋2 A Mind that is not perverted and depraved by wrong Notions.

1751 C. Lennox Harriot Stuart II. 96 You have been the means of perverting his principles.

1810 S. Green Romance Readers I. x. 31 The refined understanding of Lady Isabella was perverted to the worst of purposes.

1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty ii When we forbid bad men to pervert society by the propagation of opinions which we regard as false and pernicious.

1931 E. Pound Let. 6 Oct. (1971) 235 No lousy ploot can object on the grounds of her not bein' a lady or bein' likely to pervert the growing school child.

1991 Film Comment Mar. 72/1 Apache..upends Western clichés, more or less endorsing the counterstereotype of Noble Savage perverted by palefaces.

c. intransitive. To turn aside from the right course; to be led astray; spec. to become a religious pervert. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [verb (intransitive)]

misfareeOE

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stumblec1325

errc1374

crookc1380

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swervea1400

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pervertc1475

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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degenerate [verb (intransitive)] > become corrupt

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pervertc1475

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c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 292 Abowe all þis ȝe haue free wyll; Off þat be ware befor all thynge, For yff þat perverte, all þis dothe spyll.

a1500 in C. Monro Lett. Margaret of Anjou (1863) 167 I perverted to the Sowden in feythe.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxv So that in nothynge thy kynde from his wyl declyne, ne from his nobley peruerte.

1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. Pref. sig. A^* Our Courts Christian, which proceeding against some perverted to the Church of Rome, impute to them the Crime of Apostacy.

a1739 S. Wesley Poems Several Occasions (1743) 188 But Fools, the Means of Grace allow'd, Pervert to their Damnation.

1890 Graphic 11 Oct. 420/3 1593, the year when Henry perverted to Roman Catholicism.

1905 Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 3/2 John surrendered to the Pope to avoid surrender to his people... He found the means of escape by perverting.

4. transitive. Geometry. To reverse the transverse directions of (a figure, object, etc.), so as to form the mirror image; to invert. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > geometric space > divide geometric space [verb (transitive)] > reverse directions of

pervert1890

1890 Cent. Dict. Pervert v., to perform the geometrical operation of perversion upon (any figure).

1900 J. Larmor Æther & Matter 209 Enantiomorphy [of a molecule] reverses the signs of all its electrons and perverts their relative position.

Derivatives

perˈverting n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [adjective]

pervertinga1450

seducing?1574

debauching1645

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denaturalizing1820

society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [noun]

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun]

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writhing?1532

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twisting1890

queeringness1955

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > misapplication > perversion

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corruption1654

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [adjective] > perverting

perverting1665

denaturalizing1820

a1450 (a1387) Prol. Comm. on Matthew 45 (MED) It semeth to comaunde trespas or noiyng of neiȝbore, either peruertyng of soule; therfore it is figuratijf speche.

1533 W. Tyndale Supper of Lord in Wks. (1573) 460 A great tunne full of Mores mischief and pernicious peruertyng of Gods holy worde.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xii. sig. Ff1 Of so perverting a Nature, is so high a Station.

1751 R. Morris Life John Diamond in Lib. Impostors (1926) I. xx. 243 It was a great perverting of the design of providence, to turn it to wrong, or even trifling purposes.

1837 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 401 In the old Marquis there dwells withal..a latent fury and fuliginosity very perverting.

1998 Newsday (Nexis) 28 Dec. a33 This wailing about campaign finance reform is nothing but a smokescreen to distract us from the true perverting of our election system.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pervert
释义	pervertn. Brit. /ˈpəːvəːt/, U.S. /ˈpərˌvərt/ Forms: 1500s peruert, 1600s– pervert. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pervert v. Etymology: Either < pervert v., or use as noun of pervert adj. Compare convert n.With the shift of stress compare convert n. N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (pə̄·ɹvəɹt) /ˈpɜːvət/. 1. A person who has been perverted; spec. a person who has forsaken a doctrine or system regarded as true for one thought false (opposed to convert n. 1); an apostate. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [noun] > person apostate1340 postatea1387 relapse1407 pervert1501 reneganta1525 runagate1530 reniant1532 backfaller1545 apostatrice1551 turn-tippet?1556 runaway1561 faller-away1564 reneger?1577 renegado1584 backslider1591 retrospicientc1600 relapser1608 renegade1611 runagado1614 runagade1670 fallaway1673 lapser1695 faller-out1964 1501 Lytel Treat. XV. Tokens afore Drefull Daye Jugement sig. A.3 b Thershalbe none closter of monkes not of nonnes it shalbe full of peruertes. 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Pervert, one that is turned from good to evil; as Convert is the contrary. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 316 A Popish pervert and a Protestant convert are, indeed, two different provisionals. 1795 Biogr. Anecd. Hist. Sacred & Profane 6 Most of their new converts, or rather perverts, being people of a loose life. 1859 T. De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay XII. 95 Relapsing perverts (such is the modern slang). 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. v. xviii. 329 That this audacious pervert [sc. Paul] should not only preach, but preach to the heathen..filled them with..rage. 1956 Classical Philol. 51 6/1 Domitian may well have resented conversions to Judaism and Christianity, regarding such converts as perverts to an ‘atheism’ which involved refusing him the divine honours to which he laid claim. 1994 Independent (Nexis) 7 July 19 One faith's pervert is another faith's convert, after all. 2. A person whose sexual behaviour or inclinations are regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.The use of the term pervert to refer to a homosexual person is now considered highly offensive; cf. note s.v. perversion n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > types of sexual behaviour > [noun] > sexual behaviour regarded as unconventional or unacceptable > person pervert1856 freak1923 perv1948 secko1949 kinky1950 paraphiliac1958 paraphilic1962 prevert1962 kink1965 nonce1971 sickie1973 sicko1977 pervo1978 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. 322 The virulent fagotty-minded pervert Scheffler. 1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion i. 11 A pervert whom I can trust told me that he had made advances to upwards of one hundred men. 1933 Mod. Psychologist Nov. 264/2 They are in the main pervert sexual desires, which have been repressed because they are in conflict with the ego-ideal. 1977 Gay News 24 Mar. 27/1 The word ‘pervert’ hardly seems apt to describe Douglas, in the light of such facts. 1999 A. Wheatle Brixton Rock 22 Floyd's a pervert. He goes around walking and talking in the park wearing nutten but his sticksman coat, flashing his small t'ing to old white ladies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pervertadj. Forms: late Middle English–1500s peruert, 1500s paruert, 1500s peruart, 1500s peruarte, 1500s peruearte, 1500s peruerte, 1500s pervart; Scottish pre-1700 peruert, pre-1700 perwert. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: perverted adj. Etymology: Apparently shortened < perverted adj. Compare pervert , Scots past participle of pervert v. Compare pervert n., pervert v., and convert adj. Obsolete. Perverted, perverse; wicked. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [adjective] > affected by forraughtc1175 perverteda1382 arsewardc1386 perversec1425 perversionatec1475 perversed1488 perverta1500 thraward?a1513 seduced1584 wronged1619 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective] > perverse > depraved or perverted woughc888 forraughtc1175 perverteda1382 perversionatec1475 perversed1488 perverta1500 depravate?1520 reprobate1557 prave1564 Gomorrhean1581 depraved1593 wronged1619 prevaricate1635 pravitious1649 pravous1653 depravea1711 turpitudinous1935 a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) ii. 229 (MED) It is a comoun sawe þat þo two tungis on þe prestys schuldryn betokenyn þat þis lond hat ben twyys renegat & peruert. 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 19 Preamble Abydyng in his seid indurat & pervart opynyons. 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 84 (MED) Ioseph dyd conuerte Brytons..Afore that were Payns and also peruerte. ?1550 R. Weaver Lusty Iuventus sig. B.i God which hath geuen me y^e knowledge To know his doctrine from y^e false & peruarte. a1560 Arundel MS in J. A. W. Bennett Devotional Pieces (1955) 252 I peruert and misarable synnar am noucht wourthy [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021). pervertv. Brit. /pəˈvəːt/, U.S. /pərˈvərt/ Forms: Middle English perverte, Middle English perwert, Middle English–1500s paruert, Middle English–1500s peruerte, Middle English–1600s peruert, Middle English– pervert, 1500s peruarte, 1500s pervart; Scottish pre-1700 pervert (past participle), pre-1700 perwert, pre-1700 1700s– pervert. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pervertir, parvertir; Latin pervertere. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman purvertir, pervertir, parvertir, etc., and Middle French parvertir, Middle French, French pervertir to cause to change for the worse (first half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman; late 12th cent. in Old French), to turn away from the right course (c1170), to falsify (documents) (c1190), to lead astray, corrupt (second half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), to distort (a text) (end of the 12th cent.), to distort (meaning) (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), to distort (justice) (1359), (of things) to become corrupted (1608) and its etymon classical Latin pervertere to turn round or about, to turn the wrong way, to distort, misrepresent, to cause to deviate from the right opinion, to corrupt, lead astray, to overturn, upset, to subvert, ruin, destroy < per- per- prefix + vertere to turn (see vert v.¹). Compare Old Occitan pervertir (1279 or earlier; Occitan pervertir), Spanish pervertir (late 14th cent.), Portuguese perverter (16th cent.), Italian pervertire (a1292). 1. To turn aside (a process, action, text, etc.) from a correct state, course, or aim. a. transitive. To interfere with or distort (a correct order or process); to impede, thwart (justice, etc.). Chiefly Law in later use, esp. in to pervert the course of justice (an indictable offence under common law in the U.K.). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (transitive)] forteeOE fortihtOE bicharrea1000 perverta1382 faitc1430 perversec1475 seduce1477 seduec1485 seduct1490 wry1563 the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (transitive)] > from justice perverta1382 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xxvii. 19 Corsed [is he] þat peruerteþ [a1425 L.V. v.r. turneth vniustly; L. pervertit] doom of comylynge, faderlees child, & wedewe. a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 921 (MED) Þe whelpus signifyen heretycus y-wys, þat wollen..desire To peruert þe lawe, for couetyse. 1483 Rolls of Parl. VI. 240/2 The ordre of all poletique Rule was perverted. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xiii. 10 Thou ceasest not to pervert the strayght wayes off the lorde. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 181 That will peruert the concoction, and cause the meats to corrupt in the stomack. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 254 The Symetry whereof being causally [perh. read casually] or purposely perverted. 1717 Hist. Rise & Fall Ct. Hotspur 35 He told the Magistrates of the Capital that they perverted Justice. 1783 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. (new ed.) II. 76 The peristaltic motion of the whole canal is disturbed or perverted. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 127 Men utterly strange in speech and feeling..perverted the course of justice. 1920 Eng. Hist. Rev. 35 171 The king's thane who takes a bribe to pervert justice has to pay the king's ‘overhernesse’. 1969 MLN 84 707 Hagen the vassal perverts order time and time again by acting according to his own wishes and not those of his master, Gunther. 1994 P. J. Richardson et al. Archbold on Criminal Pleading II. 1087 It is a common law misdemeanour to pervert the course of public justice. b. transitive. To turn aside (a text, argument, concept, etc.) from the correct meaning, use, or purpose; to misapply, misconstrue, distort. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)] crooka1340 deprave1382 pervertc1390 strainc1449 drawc1450 miswrest?a1475 bewrya1522 wry?1521 to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529 writhea1533 wrest1533 invert1534 wring?1541 depravate1548 rack1548 violent1549 wrench1549 train1551 wreathe1556 throw1558 detorta1575 shuffle1589 wriggle1593 distortc1595 to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599 twine1600 wire-draw1610 monstrify1617 screw1628 corrupt1630 gloss1638 torture1648 force1662 vex1678 refract1700 warp1717 to put a force upon1729 twist1821 ply1988 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > misapply > pervert miswendc1325 misturna1382 pervertc1390 transpose1509 wrestc1530 bend1531 crooken1552 intervert1603 invert1603 c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus 2379 If thow do hem bountee, they wol peruerten it in to wikkednesse. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 390 (MED) Now þei peruerte þe liȝt of kunnyng into derknes wiþ þe blyndnes of pride. 1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) ii. xliii. 49 They peruertyn hooly Scripture by fals vnderstandynge. 1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Aviii The Supper of the Lord is peruerted, and not vsed after Christes institucyon. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 83 They peruert foundations, and will not bestow the Bequeathers free almes. 1630 W. Prynne Anti-Arminianisme 118 It peruerts, it disanulls the very series, and substance of the Scripture. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. Dij He has perverted my Meaning by his Glosses. 1789 D. Rittenhouse Lucy Sampson* iii. ii You must know, how greatly you pervert my words. 1849 R. Cobden Speeches 9 What I stated with reference to the great mass of the French people last year was perverted. 1940 F. F. Grout Kemp's Handbk. Rocks (ed. 6) x. 237 That term has been so perverted by loose usage that it is practically valueless. 1990 Ess. in Crit. 40 264 Scepticism has been interpreted, used, modified & indeed perverted in many different ways. c. transitive. To deflect, divert from a regular course. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > obviate > prevent the occurrence of or avert werec925 withsitc1300 shun1338 to turn awaya1382 forfend1382 declinec1430 stopa1538 divert1548 refract1563 withturn1563 antevert1583 avert1586 pervert1594 deprive1627 averruncate1663 stave1664 to stop off1891 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. H2^v The windes thwarting alteration, fitly resembling the crosse course of fortunes wheele in peruerting humane actions. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 151 Let's follow him, and peruert the present wrath He hath against himselfe. View more context for this quotation 1694 W. Congreve Double-dealer ii. i. 22 Reflect upon the horror of..perverting me from the road of Virtue, in which I have trod thus long, and never made one Trip. 1766 Considerations Scheme Communication Hull & Liverpool 12 Should the Navigation be perverted from the River into the Canal, there will be no Tonnage or Fund to support the Locks. 1786 R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus 22 The springs..return to their ancient channels, when the causes that perverted them are withdrawn. 1847 E. Bulwer-Lytton Word to Public 51 There is not a single attempt to create for the criminals any interest..or to pervert for one instant the channels of sympathy from their legitimate source. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. viii. 188 The English world at times betrayed a restiveness in the walled pathway of virtue; for, alas, it closely neighbours the French..but it is not perverted for long. 1993 V. Makowsky Susan Glaspell's Cent. Amer. Women 53 The life force always seeks expression, even if it is forced to take an alternate channel that perverts it from its true potential. †d. intransitive with reflexive meaning. To become corrupted. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (intransitive)] > be perverted pervert1635 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. i. 5 Blessings unus'd pervert into a Wast, As well as Surfeits. †2. transitive. To turn upside down, overturn, or upset; to change for the worse; to subvert, ruin, or destroy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn to-warpc888 overwarpeOE fallOE cumber1303 overthrowc1375 overturna1382 subverta1382 overwalta1400 sinka1400 to wend downa1400 tuyrec1400 reverse1402 tirvec1420 pervert?a1425 to put downa1425 cumrayc1425 downthringc1430 overthwart?a1439 thringc1480 subvertise1484 succumb1490 renverse1521 precipitate?1528 everta1538 wrake1570 ruinate1590 profligate1643 wreck1749 ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. ii. pr. i. 14 Fortune..hath perverted the cleernesse and the estat of thi corage. c1475 Mankind (1969) 386 (MED) All þe menys xull be sought To perverte my condycyons and brynge me to nought. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 34 (MED) Salomon..helde it peacibly aftir his dissease vnto the tyme that fleschely delectes peruertid his wisedom. 1543 G. Joye George Ioye confuteth Winchesters Articles 9 So setting the carte before the horse, and..like an vngodly gardener to peruert and turne the rotes of his plantes and herbes vpward. c1560 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxiv. 53 Ȝour play [is] sone peruertit. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Peruert, ouerthrowe, or turne up side downe. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pervert, to overthwart, to turn upside down; to subvert, corrupt, destroy, &c. 3. †a. transitive. To turn (a person) away from a religious belief regarded as true, to one held to be false. Opposed to convert v. 9. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > renounce (God or Christ) [verb (transitive)] > make perverta1425 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) 1 Cor. Prol. 338 Summe weren peruertid of eloquence of filosofie ful of wordis; othere men weren led in to the sect of the lawe of Jewis. a1450 York Plays (1885) 224 He pervertis oure pepull. a1500 (c1400) St. Erkenwald (1977) 10 (MED) Þe Saxones..peruertyd alle þe pepul þat in þat place dwellide. 1520 Chron. Eng. iv. f. 38^v/2 He was perverted by the heresy of the Ariens. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue Brief Descr. sig. ☛iij^v To peruert and turne from the truth xii godly Christians which were Martyred. 1666 E. Mountagu in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 8 If the young Lord was a strict and a grounded Papist there was some danger my Lady Dorothy might bee perverted. 1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. ii. 225 They were most of 'em Irene's creatures, whom she had perverted to idolatry. 1770 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. (1772) II. 106 It seems that they have been rather perverted than converted. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 87 Walker..with some fellows and undergraduates whom he had perverted, heard mass daily in his own apartments. 1897 Dict. National Biogr. at Rupert, Prince She feared that her son might be perverted to catholicism. b. transitive. gen. To turn aside (a person, the mind, etc.) from right opinion or action; to lead astray; to exercise a harmful influence on; to misguide; to corrupt. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pervert or deprave bicharrea1100 crooka1340 subvertc1384 pervertc1425 traverse1438 overthwartc1450 perversec1475 deprave1482 crooken1552 preposterate1566 depravate1847 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pervert or deprave > judgement, ways, etc. pervertc1425 debauch1664 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 4882 (MED) He was..of wil inmvtable Vp-on what þing he onys set his herte, Þat doubilnes myȝt hym nat peruerte. c1480 (a1400) St. Agnes 237 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 353 Hir..þat þis wichcrafte has done, & peruertis thocht and wil of al þat treutht giffis hir til. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 321 Ȝiftis blyndith þe yen of iugis And peruertith or turnith into wers wise men. 1593 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. III. 172 Seminarie Priests, Jhesuits..sent hither to pervert such as are dutiefull and well inclyned. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 3 How Hee [sc. Satan] in the Serpent had perverted Eve, Her Husband shee. View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 111. ⁋2 A Mind that is not perverted and depraved by wrong Notions. 1751 C. Lennox Harriot Stuart II. 96 You have been the means of perverting his principles. 1810 S. Green Romance Readers I. x. 31 The refined understanding of Lady Isabella was perverted to the worst of purposes. 1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty ii When we forbid bad men to pervert society by the propagation of opinions which we regard as false and pernicious. 1931 E. Pound Let. 6 Oct. (1971) 235 No lousy ploot can object on the grounds of her not bein' a lady or bein' likely to pervert the growing school child. 1991 Film Comment Mar. 72/1 Apache..upends Western clichés, more or less endorsing the counterstereotype of Noble Savage perverted by palefaces. c. intransitive. To turn aside from the right course; to be led astray; spec. to become a religious pervert. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [verb (intransitive)] misfareeOE failc1290 stumblec1325 errc1374 crookc1380 miscarryc1390 swervea1400 delire?a1475 pervertc1475 misguide1480 prevaricate1582 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degenerate [verb (intransitive)] > become corrupt rot?c1225 pervertc1475 putrefya1500 corrupt1598 gangrene1618 deprave1655 stink1934 c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 292 Abowe all þis ȝe haue free wyll; Off þat be ware befor all thynge, For yff þat perverte, all þis dothe spyll. a1500 in C. Monro Lett. Margaret of Anjou (1863) 167 I perverted to the Sowden in feythe. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxxv So that in nothynge thy kynde from his wyl declyne, ne from his nobley peruerte. 1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. Pref. sig. A^* Our Courts Christian, which proceeding against some perverted to the Church of Rome, impute to them the Crime of Apostacy. a1739 S. Wesley Poems Several Occasions (1743) 188 But Fools, the Means of Grace allow'd, Pervert to their Damnation. 1890 Graphic 11 Oct. 420/3 1593, the year when Henry perverted to Roman Catholicism. 1905 Daily Chron. 21 Aug. 3/2 John surrendered to the Pope to avoid surrender to his people... He found the means of escape by perverting. 4. transitive. Geometry. To reverse the transverse directions of (a figure, object, etc.), so as to form the mirror image; to invert. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > geometric space > divide geometric space [verb (transitive)] > reverse directions of pervert1890 1890 Cent. Dict. Pervert v., to perform the geometrical operation of perversion upon (any figure). 1900 J. Larmor Æther & Matter 209 Enantiomorphy [of a molecule] reverses the signs of all its electrons and perverts their relative position. Derivatives perˈverting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [adjective] pervertinga1450 seducing?1574 debauching1645 lenocinant1664 perversive1753 denaturalizing1820 society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [noun] renoirie1340 apostasyc1380 recidivationa1425 perversiona1450 pervertinga1450 relapsec1475 resiluation1513 departing1526 residuationa1535 back-starting1535 backsliding1554 abrenunciation1557 recreant1570 backslide1586 relapsing1591 recreantness1611 apostating1648 recadency1648 apostatizing1659 lapse1660 apostatism1814 renegadism1823 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] wrestingc1444 pervertinga1450 corruptiona1513 straining1528 writhing?1532 hacking1539 violence1546 racking1556 wrying1562 wringing1565 detorting1579 wrest1581 detortion1598 wrench1603 torture1605 distorting1610 violencing1612 refraction1614 misacception1629 distortion1650 distorture1709 misacceptation1721 torturing1753 verbicide1826 stretch1849 twisting1890 queeringness1955 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > misapplication > perversion pervertinga1450 corrupting1565 inversion1616 perversion1622 obtortion1650 corruption1654 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > [adjective] > perverting perverting1665 denaturalizing1820 a1450 (a1387) Prol. Comm. on Matthew 45 (MED) It semeth to comaunde trespas or noiyng of neiȝbore, either peruertyng of soule; therfore it is figuratijf speche. 1533 W. Tyndale Supper of Lord in Wks. (1573) 460 A great tunne full of Mores mischief and pernicious peruertyng of Gods holy worde. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xii. sig. Ff1 Of so perverting a Nature, is so high a Station. 1751 R. Morris Life John Diamond in Lib. Impostors (1926) I. xx. 243 It was a great perverting of the design of providence, to turn it to wrong, or even trifling purposes. 1837 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 401 In the old Marquis there dwells withal..a latent fury and fuliginosity very perverting. 1998 Newsday (Nexis) 28 Dec. a33 This wailing about campaign finance reform is nothing but a smokescreen to distract us from the true perverting of our election system. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1501adj.a1500v.a1382
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