Definition of Obversely

1. adv. In an obverse manner.

Definition of Obversely

1. Adverb. In an obverse manner. ¹

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Definition of Obversely

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obversely

obtuser
obtusest
obtusifoliol
obtusion
obtusities
obtusity
obtustatin
obumbrant
obumbration
obumbrations
obv.
obvention
obventions
obversant
obverse
obversely (current term)
obverses
obversion
obversions
obvert
obverted
obverting
obverts
obvi
obviable
obviate
obviated
obviates
obviating
obviating(a)

Literary usage of Obversely

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Paradisus Londinensis: Or Coloured Figures of Plants Cultivated in the ...by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker by Richard Anthony Salisbury, William Hooker (1807)
"Stigmas gold-colour, narrow, from a line to a line and a half long, divided deeply into very few segments, obversely wedge-shaped, plicated but not ..."

2. British Fresh-water Algae, Exclusive of Desmidieae and Diatomaceae by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1882)
"Oogonia single, obversely egg-shaped or globose, opening with an operculum, fissure narrow, oospores globose, not filling the oogonium, ..."

3. Fresh-water Algae of the United States: (exclusive of the Diatomaceae by Francis Wolle (1887)
"Oogonia single, obversely egg-shaped, opening with an operculum, fissure narrow, oospores nearly globose, not filling the ..."

4. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1890)
"'obversely ' denies the opposite of a proposition (All men are mortal; no men are immortal), which is to re-affirm it from the other side. ..."

5. Monastic Seals of the Xiiith Century by Gale Pedrick (1902)
"The seal of the Confessor bore obversely and reversely a crowned and enthroned ... the same device obversely, reversely the king on horseback with lance and ..."

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