CPage 401
- English Word Conversion Definition A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.
- English Word Conversion Definition A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.
- English Word Conversion Definition A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
- English Word Conversion Definition A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life.
- English Word Conversive Definition Capable of being converted or changed.
- English Word Conversive Definition Ready to converse; social.
- English Word Convert Definition To cause to turn; to turn.
- English Word Convert Definition To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.
- English Word Convert Definition To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.
- English Word Convert Definition To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.
- English Word Convert Definition To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
- English Word Convert Definition To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
- English Word Convert Definition To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- English Word Convert Definition To turn into another language; to translate.
- English Word Convert Definition To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.
- English Word Convert Definition A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.
- English Word Convert Definition A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
- English Word Converted Definition of Convert
- English Word Convertend Definition Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic).
- English Word Converter Definition One who converts; one who makes converts.
- English Word Converter Definition A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.
- English Word Convertibility Definition The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness.
- English Word Convertible Definition Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.
- English Word Convertible Definition Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
- English Word Convertibleness Definition The state of being convertible; convertibility.
- English Word Convertibly Definition In a convertible manner.
- English Word Converting Definition of Convert
- English Word Convertite Definition A convert.
- English Word Convex Definition Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.
- English Word Convex Definition A convex body or surface.