King James Bible Dictionary

REVERSE, verb transitive revers'. [Latin reversus, reverto; re and verto, to turn.]

1. To turn upside down; as, to reverse a pyramid or cone.

2. To overturn; to subvert; as, to reverse the state.

3. To turn back; as with swift wheel reverse

4. To turn to the contrary; as, to reverse the scene.

- Or affectations quite reverse the soul.

5. To put each in the place of the other; as, to reverse the distinctions of good and evil.

6. In law, to overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to annul; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence or decree. Judgments are reversed by writs of error; and for certain causes, may be reversed without such writs.

7. To recall. [Not in use.]

REVERSE, verb intransitive revers'. To return. [Not in use.]

REVERSE, noun revers'.

1. Change; vicissitude; a turn of affairs; in a good sense.

By a strange reverse of things, Justinian's law, which for many ages was neglected, now obtains -

2. Change for the worse; misfortune. By an unexpected reverse of circumstances, an affluent man is reduced to poverty.

3. A contrary; an opposite.

The performances to which God has annexed the promises of eternity, are just the reverse of all the pursuits of sense.

REVERS'ED, participle passive

1. Turned side for side or end for end; changed to the contrary.

2. In law, overthrown or annulled.

3. adjective In botany, resupinate; having the upper lip larger and more expanded than the lower; as a reversed corol.

REVERS'EDLY, adverb In a reversed manner.

REVERSELESS, adjective revers'less. Not to be reversed; irreversible.

REVERSELY, adverb revers'ly. On the other hand; on the opposite.