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Definition of Revert

1. Verb. Go back to a previous state. "We reverted to the old rules"

Definition of Revert

1. v. t. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

2. v. i. To return; to come back.

3. n. One who, or that which, reverts.

Definition of Revert

1. Noun. One who, or that which, reverts. ¹

2. Noun. (context: in Muslim usage due to the belief that all humans are born Muslim) A convert to Islam. ¹

3. Noun. (computing) The act of reversion (of e.g. a database transaction or source control repository) to an earlier state. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive now rare) To turn back, or turn to the contrary; to reverse. ¹

5. Verb. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To cause to return to a former condition. ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive now rare) To return; to come back. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To return to the possession of. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To cause (a property or rights) to return to the previous owner. ¹

10. Verb. (intransitive) To return to a former practice, condition, belief, etc. ¹

11. Verb. (intransitive biology) To return to an earlier or primitive type or state; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. ¹

12. Verb. (intransitive) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse. ¹

13. Verb. (intransitive) To return to a previous subject of discourse or thought. ¹

14. Verb. (context: intransitive in Muslim usage due to the belief that all humans are born Muslim) To convert to Islam. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Revert

1. to return to a former state [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Revert

1. 1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse. "Till happy chance revert the cruel scence." (Prior) "The tumbling stream . . . Reverted, plays in undulating flow." (Thomson) 2. To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate. 3. To change back. See Revert, To revert a series, to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx^2 + etc, where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged in powers of y. Origin: L. Revertere, reversum; pref. Re- re- + vertere to turn: cf. OF. Revertir. See Verse, and cf. Reverse. 1. To return; to come back. "So that my arrows Would have reverted to my bow again." (Shak) 2. To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him. 3. To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type. 4. To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilisers reverts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Revert

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

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"... of the condition expressed or implied in the donation of it, that if the donee died without such particular heirs, the land should revert to the donor. ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The provision in the Act of Congress of 1856, that all lands remaining unsold after ten 21 WALL. years shall revert to the United States, if the road be not ..."

3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"children, then this devise shall revert and become a part and parcel of my general estate, subject to any disposition that my wife may make of the same," Is ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"Testator devised his property to his own daughter in trust, she to have the income, and, should she die without issue, the property was to revert back to ..."

5. The Civil Code of the State of California by California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch (1872)
"Lands u, revert to .State, when. earth, naturally appurtenant thereto, which may be necessary and convenient for the original construction of its works and ..."

6. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"5 A. Kublai Khan founds the Yuan Dynasty. § 5B. The Mongols revert to Tribalism. § 5c. The Kipchak Empire and the Tsar of Muscovy. ..."

7. The Popular Science MonthlyScience (1893)
"Do " thorough-breds " revert t (Misc.), 7 : 634. Hereditary diseases and race-culture (3 p.). G: J. Preston, 29 : 639. — stature (Misc.), 80 : 139. ..."

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