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Opposite in order, relation, or effect; reversed; inverted; reciprocal; -- opposed to direct.

In an inverse order or manner; by inversion; -- opposed to directly. Inversely proportional. See Directly proportional, under Directly, and Inversion, 4.

A change by inverted order; a reversed position or arrangement of things; transposition. It is just the inversion of an act of Parliament; your lordship first signed it, and then it was passed among the Lords and Commons. Dryden.

The state or quality of being irreversible; irreversibleness.

Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.

A steering gear, esp. for an automobile, not affected by the road wheels, as when they strike an obstacle side ways, but easily controlled by the hand wheel or steering lever.

The state or quality of being irreversible.

In an irreversible manner.

eutonic languages, probably as early as the 3d century b. c. , often called the first Lautverschiebung, sound shifting, or consonant shifting. (b) A somewhat similar set of changes taking place in the High German dialects (less fully in modern literary German) from the 6th to the 8th century, known as the second Lautve…

Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.

Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.

The office or work of an observer.

Conversant; familiar. [Obs.] Bacon.

coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.

In an obverse manner.

deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception." Bain.

To saturate to excess.

To say over; to repeat. Ford.

Scented excessively.

Overscrupulousness.