reenverse
English edit
Etymology edit
Alteration of renverse (after re-).
Verb edit
reenverse (third-person singular simple present reenverses, present participle reenversing, simple past and past participle reenversed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To reverse.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Plato saith that it often changeth his countenance, that the heaven, the starres, and the sunne do sometimes re-enverse the motion we perceive in them, changing the east into the west.