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Definition of Obversely
1. adv. In an obverse manner.
Definition of Obversely
1. Adverb. In an obverse manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Obversely
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obversely
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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