everting

Verb

evert (third-person singular simple present everts, present participle everting, simple past and past participle everted)

1. (often, transitive) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.
   • But if the conjunctiva be not diseased or very firmly united to the tumour, we had better operate without everting the eyelid, and this is possible without leaving an observable scar on the eyelid.1809, Charles Bell, “Of Tumours of the Eyelid”, in A System of Operative Surgery, Founded on the Basis of Anatomy, volume II, London: Printed [by C. Stower] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […]...
2. (obsolete, transitive) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
3. (also, figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To turn upside down; to overturn.
   • [A]s to the confession contained in the act of court, the same being only subscribed by the alleged court clerk, and not by the party, or a notary for him, cannot be of force to derogate to his prior right, which cannot be taken away, but either by oath of party, or as great a solemnity in writ, as...1632 January 27, William Maxwell Morison, “Removing. [Earl of Lauderdale against ——.]”, in The Decisions of the Court of Session, from Its Institution until the Separation of the Court into Two...
4. (also, ambitransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To disrupt; to overthrow.
   • And incaſe his Majeſtie or his Commiſſioner be not preſent for the time in the town where the Aſsembly is holden, it ſhall be leaſome to the ſaid generall Aſsembly by themſelves to appoint the time and place of the next. But this declaration not only leaves all indefinit, but totally everts that...1638 December 28, The Protestation of the Generall Assembly of the Kirke of Scotland, and of the Noblemen, Barrons, Gentlemen, Borrowes, Ministers and Commons; Subscribers of the Covenant Lately...

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