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A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system. [Obs.] E. Darwin.

One who, or that which, reverts.

Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.

Reverting, or tending to revert; returning. -- Re*vert"ive*ly, adv. The tide revertive, unattracted, leaves A yellow waste of idle sands behind. Thomson.

Same as Reverie.

See Sandiver. [Obs.]

A reverent respect for one's self. Tennyson.

divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body. The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. Matt. xiii. 49.

Capable of being severed. Encyc. Dict.

Separate; distinct; particular; single. Each several ship a victory did gain. Dryden. Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand. Pope.

Each particular taken singly; distinction. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To distinguish. [Obs.]

ctly; apart from others; individually. There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally by itself. De Quincey.

tion from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right. Forests which had never been owned in severalty. Bancroft. Estate in severalty (Law), an estate which the tenant holds in his own right, without being joined in interest with any other person; -- distinguished from joint tenancy, coparcenary, and co…

The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. Milman.

or cheerful. Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller.

The quality or state of being severe. Specifically: --

A bay or compartment of a vaulted ceiling. [Written also civery.]

A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.

A word compounded of so and ever, used in composition with who, what, where, when, how, etc., and indicating any out of all possible or supposable persons, things, places, times, ways, etc. It is sometimes used separate from the pronoun or adverb. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required. Luke x…