Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: CON-VERT'ED – CON-VEY'ER
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CON-VERT'ED, pp.
Turned or changed from one substance or state to another; turned from one religion or sect to another; changed from a state of sin to a state of holiness; applied to a particular use; appropriated.
CON-VERT'ER, n.
One who converts; one who makes converts.
CON-VERT-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [From convertible.]
- The quality of being possible to be converted or changed from one substance, form or state to another; as, the convertibility of land into money. – Burke.
- The quality of being changeable from one letter to another; as, the convertibility of m with b, or of d into t. – As. Researches.
CON-VERT'I-BLE, a. [Fr., from convertir.]
- That may be changed; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. – Harvey.
- So much alike that one may be used for another. Usury and interest are not now convertible terms, though formerly they were.
- That may be changed, as one letter for another; as, b, p and f are convertible letters.
Convertibility.
CON-VERT'I-BLY, adv.
Reciprocally; with interchange of terms. – South.
CON-VERT'ING, a.
Adapted to convert, that converts from a state of nature to a state of grace.
CON-VERT'ING, ppr.
Turning; changing.
CON'VERT-ITE, n.
A convert. [Not in use.]
CON'VEX, a. [L. convexus; It. convesso.]
Rising or swelling on the exterior surface into a spherical or round form; gibbous; opposed to concave, which expresses a round form of the interior surface; as, a convex mirror or lens.
CON'VEX, n.
A convex body; as, heaven's convex. – Tickel.
CON'VEX-ED, a.
Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. – Brown.
CON-VEX'ED-LY, adv.
In a convex form. – Brown.
CON-VEX'I-TY, n. [L. convexitas.]
The exterior surface of a convex body; a gibbous or globular form; roundness. – Newton. Bentley.
CON'VEX-LY, adv.
In a convex form; as, a body convexly conical.
CON'VEX-NESS, n.
Convexity – which see.
Convex on one side and concave on the other; having the hollow on the inside corresponding to the convex surface.
Convex on both sides.
CON-VEY', v.t. [L. conveho; con and veho, to carry, Sax. wægan, wegan, Eng. to weigh. See Weigh and Way.]
- To carry, bear or transport, either by land or water, or in air; as, to convey a letter or a package; to convey goods from England to France.
- To pass or cause to pass; to transmit; as, to convey a right or an estate from father to son.
- To transfer; to pass a title to any thing from one person to another, as by deed, assignment, or otherwise; as, to convey lands by bargain and sale.
- To cause to pass; to transmit; to carry, by any medium; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.
- To manage; to carry on. [Not used.] I will convey the business as I shall find means. – Shak.
- To impart; to communicate.
CON-VEY'A-BLE, a.
That maybe conveyed or transferred. – Burke on the Sublime.
CON-VEY'ANCE, n.
- The act of conveying; the act of bearing, carrying, or transporting, by land or water, or through any medium.
- The act of transmitting, or transferring, as titles, estates or claims from one person to another; transmission; transferrence, assignment.
- The instrument or means of passing a thing from place to place, or person to person; as, a vehicle is a conveyance for persons or goods; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water; a deed is a conveyance of land.
- Removal; the act of censoring or carrying. – Shak.
- Management; artifice; secret practices. [In this sense, obsolete.] – Spenser.
CON-VEY'AN-CER, n.
One whose occupation is to draw conveyances of property, deeds, &c.
CON-VEY'AN-CING, n.
The act or, practice of drawing deeds, leases or other writings for transferring the title to property from one person to another.
CON-VEY'ED, pp.
Carried; transmitted; transferred.
CON-VEY'ER, n.
- One who conveys; he or that which conveys, carries, transports, transmits or transfers from one person or place to another.
- A juggler. – Shak.