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Definition of Overturns
1. overturn [v] - See also: overturn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overturns
Literary usage of Overturns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1841)
"... which confession of his overturns his whole struc- *' ' ture of absolute
necessity." Why so ? ..."
2. A Discourse on the Studies of the University by Adam Sedgwick (1835)
"Neither have we any right to say that it blots out the knowledge of good and
evil, and overturns the judicial throne of conscience. ..."
3. The Battle Summer: Being Transcripts from Personal Observation in Paris by Donald Grant Mitchell (1850)
"BLOUSE Overturns BOURGEOIS. THAT People-Chamber is not unattended. Louis Blanc,
shivering—though it is warm May-time—on benches of the Right, has been told* ..."
4. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1820)
"When a Ship overturns or runs down another. loss be occasioned by their servants
or by other guests, or by voyagers or travellers taken on board the ship or ..."
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