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One versed in teleology.

called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.

style. Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence. Macaulay. A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse. Longfellow.

A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.

A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines. Crabb.

A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.

A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged in four columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or four columns.

A stanza, epigram, or poem, consisting of four verses or lines. Pope.

A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine. How oft, when Paul has served us with a text, Has Epictetus, Plato, Tully, preached! Cowper.

One who is well versed in the Scriptures; a textman. Bp. Bull.

Of or pertaining to Thebes in Egypt; specifically, designating a version of the Bible preserved by the Copts, and esteemed of great value by biblical scholars. This version is also called the Sahidic version.

A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

One versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of remedies.

One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.

Verses of Scripture sung at Mass, instead of the Alleluia, from Septuagesima Sunday till the Saturday befor Easter;-so called because sung tractim,or without a break, by one voice, instead of by many as in the antiphons.

A written version of what was said orally; as, a transcript of a trial.

That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.

To change from prose into verse; to versify; also, to change from verse into prose. [Obs.] Dryden.

across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse or hyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci. -- Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, at right angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.…

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