evertere

evertere [CL] 1 to overturn, turn over or back (also fig.); b (p. ppl. eversus) upside down; c (of garment) ‘turned’. d (w. in or ex) contrary, backwards. [Godwini] ~untur oculi, brachia rigescunt Ailr. Ed. Conf. 767A; Eadmer Beat. 3 (v. divertere 1d); R. Cold. Cuthb. 36 (v. evolvere 1b); Gir. IK I 12 (v. continere 1b); mulier si acum amiserit ‥ omnia stramina ~it [ME: towent uch strea] quousque invenerit AncrR 124; 1423 Amund. I 178 (v. corrosivus 1b).  b Bacon Maj. II 140 (v. confluentia b); 1315 in cruce sancti Petri cum ymagine ~a argentea ‥ continetur Invent. Ch. Ch. 81; ~um, A. upsodoun WW.  c 1448 una toga nigra per fullonem ~a MunAcOx 579.  d s1385 Deus ‥, vento in ~um stante, classim regiam portum predictum exire vetabat Thorne 2181; s1304 ferris equorum ex ~o confixit [v. l. confixtis] ‥ ut nullus vestigia equorum ‥ perciperet Plusc. IX 5 (cf. Fordun Cont. XII 6: ferramenta ‥ retrograde affigi). 2 to upset, overturn, throw down (structure). b to overthrow, sack (mil.). c to uproot, fell (also fig.). nefandas simulacrorum effigies ‥ ad solum diruit, quassavit, ~it Aldh. VirgP 36 p. 282; deruta, i. ~a, ahwerfde GlH D 236; ~ere †ahwerfdon[l. ahwerfan], vel gehwurfan, towurpan Ib. E 376; Gosc. Transl. Aug. 39D (v. evacuare 3c); cum tantam molem [sc. statue] ‥ non posset ~ere, ‥ ignem idolo supponi jussit Greg. Mir. Rom. 6.  b ~it, expugnat GlC E 340; pleros gladio vindice ferit, aliorum latebras ~it, terras devastat, et domos ‥ concremat Ord. Vit. IV p. 195; G. Hen. II I 219 (v. conventiculum 2b); planctus ‥ chori de eversa Troja Trevet Troades 3.  c cultor agrestis / pinos evertens altas Aldh. Aen. 78. 10; corus ‥ arbores ‥ ~ens Gir. TH I 6; c1435 (v. deponere 7a). 3 to overthrow (fig.), frustrate. b to divert (from). hoc vitium [sc. luxuria] ‥ totius boni ~it statum Gildas EB 21; ut ‥ adscisceretur quatenus, qui magorum molimina funditus ~eret ‥ supernorum sacramenta ‥ cognosceret Aldh. VirgP 43; ubi pretium pro dicenda justitia accepit, veritatem vendidit, et quando ipsam ratione sua ~ebat ‥ veritatem perimebat Alex. Cant. Mir. 46 (II) p. 251; s1437 Deus qui ‥ perjuros et pacem turbantes confudit et ~it Compilatio 166.  b sese mutavit in turpem vulpeculam ut vel sic famulum Dei cauda quatienti ‥ ab intentione Dei sui ~eret B. V. Dunst. 16. 4 to turn or convert (something into another form). sic agnas ~it in lupas Map NC V 3 f. 60v.