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单词 ranverse
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ranversen.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French renvers.
Etymology: < French renvers reverse side of a coin, back of a sheet of paper (1575 in Middle French; < renverser renverse v.), influenced in form by reverse n., obverse adj. Compare Middle French renverse (feminine) the opposite of something (a1377 in faire la renverse to do the opposite). Compare slightly earlier renvers adj. and later renvers n.
Obsolete. rare.
1. The reverse side of a coin. Also figurative. Cf. reverse n. 2a(a).
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > obverse or reverse of coin
pilea1393
cross and pile1584
reverse1605
averse1655
ranverse1656
obverse1658
heads1675
tail1684
endorse1688
woman1785
mazard1802
man1828
mick1918
1656 F. Osborne Advice to Son (ed. 4) iii. §10. 88 Policy..stamps them with the Image of the Devill, and on their Ranverse Punishment and Shame.
1658 T. Pecke Advice to Balam's Ass 21 He..would become fit to receive the impresse of supream Authority; Being Stampt with Honour on the forepart, and bearing on the Ranverse Regall Favour and Munificency.
2. The opposite of something previously stated; the other side of a case.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > the opposite point
halfa885
part1485
counterpoint1599
ranverse1675
counterposition1861
contrapositive1870
countertype1880
antitype1926
1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo iii. 305 As it is a Ridiculous procedure, to make the sound of words the Measure of our Interpretation, so is it no less perverse a Method, to Expound Scripture by the Ranverse, and go just cross to the sound of words.
1678 V. Alsop Melius Inquirendum ii. viii. 307 This will more evidently appear, if we take the Ranverse of the case, thus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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