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Webster's 1828 DictionaryREVER'SION, n. [L. reversio.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)n Merriam Webster'snoun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin reversion-, reversio act of returning, from revertere Date: 15th century Oxford Reference Dictionaryn. 1 a the legal right (esp. of the original owner, or his or her heirs) to possess or succeed to property on the death of the present possessor. b property to which a person has such a right. 2 Biol. a return to ancestral type. 3 a return to a previous state, habit, etc. 4 a sum payable on a person's death, esp. by way of life insurance. Derivatives: reversional adj. reversionary adj. Etymology: ME f. OF reversion or L reversio (as REVERSE) Webster's 1913 DictionaryReversion Re*ver"sion, n. [F. r['e]version, L. reversio a turning back. See Revert.] 1. The act of returning, or coming back; return. [Obs.] After his reversion home, [he] was spoiled, also, of all that he brought with him. --Foxe. 2. That which reverts or returns; residue. [Obs.] The small reversion of this great navy which came home might be looked upon by religious eyes as relics. --Fuller. 3. (Law) The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after the termination of a limited or less estate carved out of it and conveyed by him. --Kent. 4. Hence, a right to future possession or enjoiment; succession. For even reversions are all begged before. --Dryden. 5. (Annuities) A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person. --Brande &C. 6. (Biol.) A return towards some ancestral type or character; atavism. Reversion of series (Alg.), the act of reverting a series. See To revert a series, under Revert, v. t. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary(reversions) 1. A reversion to a previous state, system, or kind of behaviour is a change back to it. This is a reversion to the system under which the Royals were paid for nearly 300 years. = return N-SING: also no det, N to n 2. The reversion of land or property to a person, family, or country is the return to them of the ownership or control of the land or property. (LEGAL) N-VAR: oft the N of n to n Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
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