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inversare

inversare [LL] 1 to turn inside out, invert. locus ‥ ubi fit [cancer] ‥ ~atur et solum caro corroditur et non cutis Gilb. III 154. 2; pulvis ‥ superaspergatur ~ato intestino quando assellat Ib. V 230. 1; oculi sunt rubei et lachrymantur, palpebre ~antur Gad. 46. 2. 2 to turn over (in the mind), ponder repeatedly. summa sapientia est non Platonem legere, non Aristotelis versutias ~are, sed Christum diligere P. Blois Serm. 53. 718C; que utilitas est, schedulas evolvere, firmare verbotenus summas, et sophismatum versutias ~are? Ib. 101. 313C. 3 to twist (fig.), pervert. in compellatione positorum, alie [sc. cause] per visum fiunt et auditum, ‥ alie per estimationem, que magis ad violentam usurpationem inprobis prelatorum conjecturis ~antur (Leg. Hen. 9. 1b) GAS 555.

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