Meanings
present singular third person reenverses · participle present reenversing · participle past reenversed · past reenversed
- obsoletetransitiveTo reverse.
Plato saith that it often changeth his countenance, that the heaven, the starres, and the sunne do sometimes re-enverse the motion we perceive in them, changing the east into the west.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Origin
Alteration of renverse (after re-).
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