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A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning. The version of air into water. Bacon.

One who makes or favors a version; a translator. [R.]

A turning towards; attention. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

ice; direct or simple perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.

Act of controverting; controversy. [Obs.] Hooker.

condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change. Artificial conversion of water into ice. Bacon. The conversion of the aliment into fat. Arbuthnot.

The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.

The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

The condition of being turned wrong side out; as, extroversion of the bladder. Dunglison.

The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward. Berkeley.

rted 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.

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.

hange to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws." Bacon.

A second conversion.

kward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus.

The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.] After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him. Foxe.