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To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

he court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court. You know I am no courtier, nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay.

One versed in criminal law. [R.]

One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.

One versed in crustalogy.

One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.

Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them. "A cuneiform scholar." Rawlinson.

Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply. Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.

One versed in demonology. R. North.

One who writes on, or is versed in, demonology.

One versed in the natural history of trees.

One versed in deontology.

One who discourses on the skin and its diseases; one versed in dermatology.

One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Suc…

One versed in dramaturgy. Carlyle.

One versed in ecclesiology.

One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.