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One versed in horoscopy; an astrologer.

One versed in knowledge of human nature.

One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics. [R.]

One versed in hygiene.

A composer or compiler of hymns; one versed in hymnology. Busby.

One who is versed in hypnology.

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

One versed in, or who studies, ichthyology.

One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.

Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar.

One who is versed in the principles of international law.

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

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.

Changed to a contrary or counterchanged order; reversed; characterized by inversion.

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

to the temperature of the cold chamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines.

The space traversed by a leap.

One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law. It has ever been the method of public jurists to Burke.

One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obligations in other matters. It is a general term, comprehending attorneys, counselors, solicitors, barristers, sergeants, and advo…

Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.