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Of or pertaining to a reversion; involving a reversion; to be enjoyed in succession, or after the termination of a particular estate; as, a reversionary interest or right.

One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.

; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate. Evelyn. Laws have been often abused to the oppression an…

Promoting destruction.

The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

The state of being unconverted; impenitence. [R.]

To believe; to credit; to put trust in. The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

That branch of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.

The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; diversion. His favorite amusements were architecture and gardening. Macaulay.

The conversion of starch into soluble products, as dextrins and sugar, esp. by the action of enzymes. -- Am`y*lo*lyt"ic (#), a.

Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. Foster.

Not changed in form by inversion. Anallagmatic curves, a class of curves of the fourth degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; -- sometimes called bicircular quartics. -- Anallagmatic surfaces, a certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

Intense dread of, or aversion to, England or the English. -- An"glo*phobe, n.

Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.

Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.

To displace by anteversion.

Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.

Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.