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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REVERT', v.t. [L. reverto; re and verto, to turn.]
1. To turn back; to turn to the contrary; to reverse.
Till happy chance revert the cruel scene.
[Instead of revert, in this sense, reverse is generally used.]
2. To drive or turn back; to reverberate; as a stream reverted.
REVERT', v.i.
1. To return; to fall back.
2. In law, to return to the proprietor, after the determination of a particular estate. A feud granted to a man for life, or to him and his issue male, or his death or failure of issue male, reverted to the lord or proprietor.
REVERT', n. In music, return; recurrence; antistrophy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" [syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back]
2: undergo reversion, as in a mutation

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French revertir, from Latin revertere, verbt., to turn back & reverti, verbi., to return, come back, from re- + vertere, verti to turn — more at worth Date: 15th century 1. to come or go back (as to a former condition, period, or subject) 2. to return to the proprietor or his or her heirs at the end of a reversion 3. to return to an ancestral type • reverter noun • revertible adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 intr. (foll. by to) return to a former state, practice, opinion, etc. 2 intr. (of property, an office, etc.) return by reversion. 3 intr. fall back into a wild state. 4 tr. turn (one's eyes or steps) back. Derivatives: reverter n. (in sense 2). Etymology: ME f. OF revertir or L revertere (as REVERSE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Revert Re*vert", v. i. 1. To return; to come back. So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again. --Shak. 2. (Law) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him. 3. (Biol.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some pre["e]xistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. 4. (Chem.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Revert Re*vert", n. One who, or that which, reverts. An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith. --Fuller.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Revert Re*vert", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Reverting.] [L. revertere, reversum; pref. re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse.] 1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. Till happy chance revert the cruel scence. --Prior. The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow. --Thomson. 2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. 3. (Chem.) To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series (Alg.), to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx^2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(reverts, reverting, reverted) 1. When people or things revert to a previous state, system, or type of behaviour, they go back to it. Jackson said her boss became increasingly depressed and reverted to smoking heavily. VERB: V to n 2. When someone reverts to a previous topic, they start talking or thinking about it again. (WRITTEN) In the car she reverted to the subject uppermost in her mind. VERB: V to n 3. If property, rights, or money revert to someone, they become that person's again after someone else has had them for a period of time. (LEGAL) When the lease ends, the property reverts to the freeholder. VERB: V to n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Reverse, turn back. 2. Repel, drive back, turn back. II. v. n. Return, recur, come back, turn back.

Moby Thesaurus

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