deturn
English edit
Etymology edit
From de- + turn. Compare detour.
Verb edit
deturn (third-person singular simple present deturns, present participle deturning, simple past and past participle deturned)
- (obsolete) To turn away; to divert.
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
- the force that can deturn a feather from its course downwards, is not able to deturn a ſtone
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deturn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)