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invertere [CL] 1 to turn inside out, back to front, or upside down. b to turn over (ground by digging or ploughing). c to turn over violently, upset, roll. d to turn round, reverse the order or direction of. quis inversis pedibus crucis affixus pro reverentia Christi patibulo ‥ extremum halitum fudit? Gildas EB 73; ministrorum tumultu loricam inversam indutus casum risu correxit W. Malm. GR III 242; eidem duci lorica ad induendum porrigitur, ex inproviso inversa ipsi oblata est Chr. Battle f. 9v; Upton 216 (v. 2c infra).  b non licuit cultis committere semina sulcis / anne vacat saltem steriles invertere glebas? Frith. 959.  c trahit lignum secum usque ad mare magnum et spatium trium dierum in mare ~itur et in quarto die in supradicto fonte invenitur Nen. HB 72; offa quam in os miserat suffocatus oculos ad mortem ~it W. Malm. GR II 197; [porcus silvaticus] ‥ se spiculis ~it Quaest. Salern. N 57 (v. defervere 2b); autumant ‥ ordinem universi ~i S. Sim. Itin. 52.  d ‘vivaque sulphura’ quem quidam ~entes sic legunt ‘et sulphura viva’ Aldh. Met. 10 p. 89; septem dormientes ‥ requiescere jam ducentis annis in dextro jacentes latere, sed tunc ‥ latus ~isse sinistrum W. Malm. GR II 225; ut ‥ non solum sine ejus [sc. Anselmi] precepto non surgeret [Edmerus], sed nec latus ~eret Id. GP I 65; aures frigide et inverse et contracte J. Mirfield Brev. 54; to warp as wodde, ~ere Levins Manip. 33. 2 (p. ppl. inversus): a (bot.) inverted. b (de duplici ~o, de duobus ~is) reversible material (cf. OF à deux envers). c (her. crux ~a) cross moline, cross recercelé. a fabam inversam Gerv. Tilb. III 14 (v. faba 2d); bardana, i. lappa inversa sive lappa major, quod idem est SB 12; SB 20 (v. faba 2c); faberia inversa Alph. 61 (v. fabaria 2a); Turner Herb. C IV (v. 1 crassula 1b).  b 1235 item de russeth’ ‥ de duplici inverso, xiiij uln’ Chanc. Misc. 3/3; 1239 in exitibus ‥ c et xij s. quos posuit ‥ in uno russetto xxv ulnarum de duobus inversis empto ad opus nostrum Liberate 13 m. 13.  c portat unam crucem auri inversam in scuto rubeo. Anglice, he berith of gowlis with a crosse inversid. quia fines hujus crucis vertuntur ad modum cornuum arietis; ideo dicitur crux inversa Bad. Aur. 192; dicitur hec crux crux inversa pro eo quod hujus crucis fines undique ~untur ad modum cornu arietis et istis armis utentes portant unam crucem auream inversam in scuto rubeo. et Gallice sic, il port de gowlez ung crois recercylee d’or Upton 216. 3 to turn inward (fig.), make secret. artes difficiles, inversas et monachiles, / quas nemo scierit nisi sancte discere querit R. Cant. Malch. III 525. 4 to change into something else. b to pervert. c (p. ppl. inversus) perverted. W. Malm. GR V 407 (v. inveteratus 3a).  b a1078 (v. inversor); verum scribe et pharisei hoc ~unt, et calumpniantur, assignantes expulsionem demoniorum Beelzebub principi eorum W. Newb. Serm. 837.  c quem gentis asperitas, barbara lingua, mores inversi ‥ non prevalebant a predicando repellere V. Birini f. 63v.

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