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sp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.

One who, or that which, averts.

Capable of being averted; preventable.

Advertisement. [Obs.]

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate. Some controverted points had decided according to the sense of the best jurists. Macaulay.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.

One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.

To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.] O, which way shall I first convert myself B. Jonson.

ich is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. (Logic).

One who converts; one who makes converts.

The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.

Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey.

The state of being convertible; convertibility.

In a convertible manner.

A convert. [Obs.] Shak.

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton

Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.