evert
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin ēvertere (“to turn (an item of clothing) inside out”), Latin ēvertere, present active infinitive of ēvertō (“to turn upside down; to overturn; to reverse”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out, away’)) + vertō (“to reverse; to revolve, turn; to turn around”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to rotate, turn”)).
Inflected forms:
form: everts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: everting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: everted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: everted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: But if the conjunctiva be not diseased or very firmly united to the tumour, we had better operate without everting the eyelid, and this is possible without leaving an observable scar on the eyelid.
The brachial artery may be exposed and tied in any part of its course, the border of the biceps and coraco-brachialis serving as a guide to its situation. When the arm is drawn away from the side, and slightly everted, the hand being supinated, the seat of the operation is fairly brought into view.
One of the chief causes of flat foot is the natural defect of improper alignment of the leg and the foot, with the result that both muscle action and gravity act to evert and depress the foot.
The older writers, like ourselves, were of course fascinated by the spectacle of a tiny fungus everting its inner peridium with lightning-like rapidity and casting away its ball of spores.
In addition to functioning as a dorsiflexor of the foot, the extensor digitorum longus also everts the foot and extends the toes.
gloss: To move (someone or something) out of the way.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To turn upside down; to overturn.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: [A]s to the confession contained in the act of court, the same being only subscribed by the alleged court clerk, and not by the party, or a notary for him, cannot be of force to derogate to his prior right, which cannot be taken away, but either by oath of party, or as great a solemnity in writ, as is the writ which is desired to be everted thereby; [...]
[E]very Ray ſtreaming out of a viſible point, is propagated in a direct line; ſo that the Object is everted, if the Rays do not ſuffer an Interſection, either before or behind the hole, which would not happen, if the Rays were not carried in right Lines, but refracted; [...]
Hence it is, That if no Privilege ſhall be alledg'd or pleaded, the Court may proceed againſt the Perſon; and ſuch a Proceſs is valid, becauſe the Juriſdiction of the Judge is not yet everted and overthrown.
[E]ven these would be infinitely disordered to find the economy of their apartments deranged by an unlucky kitten, almost faint at a broken pane, and be absolutely taken ill of an everted coal-box.
gloss: To disrupt; to overthrow.
pos: verb
tags: also
ambitransitive
figuratively
obsolete
examples: And incaſe his Majeſtie or his Commiſſioner be not preſent for the time in the town where the Aſsembly is holden, it ſhall be leaſome to the ſaid generall Aſsembly by themſelves to appoint the time and place of the next. But this declaration not only leaves all indefinit, but totally everts that power and liberty competent to them by law and cuſtome.
That is not to be admitted which overturneth the order eſtabliſhed by Chriſt of commanding, and obeying, and which everteth the integrall members and parts of a viſible politike miniſteriall body of Chriſt, but to give the power of the keyes to all, and every one, overturneth this order of Chriſts, [...]
[O]verturning all the Fundamental Conſtitutions of the Government, perverting, inverting, everting all Laws, Liberties, all Priviledges of Church and State, [...]
Thus nations ſink, ſociety diſſolves; / Rapine, and guile, and violence break looſe, / Everting life, and turning love to gall; [...]
[T]he greater part of Christendom, within less than three hundred years' space, being brought into captivity and most miserable thraldom under the Turks, and the noble empire of Greece clean everted.
Related words: everse
eversion
everted
Derived words: uneverted
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