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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.

Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.

Partially verticillate.

To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly. These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength, With which he yoketh your rebellious necks, Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns. Shak. This would subvert the principles of all knowledge. Locke.

Reserved. [R.]

Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.

One who, or that which, subverts; an overthrower. Sir T. More.

That may be subverted.

An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.

To cause to turn across; to transverse. [Obs.] Craft of Lovers (1448).

Capable of being transverted. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A white concretionary form of calcium carbonate, usually hard and semicrystalline. It is deposited from the water of springs or streams holding lime in solution. Extensive deposits exist at Tivoli, near Rome.

Incontrovertible.

Incontrovertibly.

Not converted or exchanged.

To free from perversion; to deliver from being perverted; to reconvert. [Obs.]

in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.

rt, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.