Meaning of circumvert | Babel Free

Definitions

To rotate; to cause to turn around.

transitive

Examples

“Let not the Devil circumvert us by his Frauds and Deceits;”

“Then he employ'd all his witt to circumvert her in discource, to have gotten something out of her concerning some persons they aym'd at, which if he, I believe would have bene beneficiall to him;”

“In order to circumvert a figure, it must be turned around or maneuvered in the next higher dimension. Thus, a line must be turned through a plane, a polygon through 3-space, and a solid through 4-space.”

“There is no question but these young Machiavels will in a little time turn their college upside down with plots and stratagems, and lay as many schemes to circumvert one another in a frog or a salad, as they may hereafter put in practice to overreach a neighbouring prince or state.”

“[…] and we cannot wonder at it, when we remember that the object of tyrannical governments, in order to stretch taxation to excess, and circumvert the mouth of labour, is to plunge nations into all the horrors of war, shackle the press, exhibit a great shew of grandeur and pomp, encourage such songs and toasts as are likely to enslave the mind, and suffocate reflection.”

“"Don’t trouble yourself; my efforts to circumvert the wicked plans of our persecutor have been successful."”

“Here dust seemed to be the aggressor, for the long rows of unused column-wide type on the office battery were artistically frescoed with Second and F street dust—in fact, so thouroughly circumverted by the wily invader that they seemed frozen to the resting place.”

“The ant's curvacious path might seem to be an insanely complex ritual to someone locking only at a history of it traced on paper. But in fact the humble ant is merely trying to circumvert the beach's obstacles and go home.”

“Parents researched birth charts probably not so much to assure good fortune as to circumvert incest in a population that has but one hundred surnames.”

“A new book […] will help NASA and space enthusiasts circumvert the often thin or nonexistent space coverage provided by the major media and, instead, stay up-to-date with information direct from the source.”

“It has been simply deduced from the data to circumvert the poor fit provided in the usual closure submodels.”

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