proverse

Adjective

proverse (comparative more proverse, superlative most proverse)

1. Describing the tendency of a plane to roll in the same direction as yaw.
   • This is preferred over adverse yaw unless it becomes too proverse!1995, Jan Roskam, Airplane Flight Dynamics and Automatic Flight Controls, page 117
2. Favourable; in line with one's interests or desires.
   • Because of this, safety helmets have been the target of litigation to the extreme, with both adverse and proverse effect.1994, Earl F. Hoerner, Head and Neck Injuries in Sports, page 322
   • When a process of proverse selection has run its course, a disproportionate number of high-risk insureds will remain in the former classification, which will prompt an increase in the premiums charged in order to cover the higher losses.1999, Missouri Law Review, volume 64, page 770

   Antonyms:

   adverse

3. In the typical or canonical direction, order, or orientation.
   • But this, like every other, has its proverse and reverse aspects.1898, Edward Thomas Owen, The Meaning and Function of Thought-connectives, page 37
   • Horace twists the Homeric strands used by Vergil by a further twist when he in turn plays the Vergilian game and points to a proverse and converse relationship between Agrippa and Meriones in the same way as Vergil had created proverse and converse relationships between Diomedes and Aeneas/Augustus.2004, Yvan Nadeau, Safe and Subsidized: Vergil and Horace Sing Augustus, page 151

   Antonyms:

   converse, reverse

4. Curved backward or downward.
   • The sculpture consists of rather sharp proverse ribs in the inner whorls, starting at the umbilical seam and forming small and rounded nodes at the ventrolateral region and branching into two ventral ribs.1971, Guzārish, page 39
   • Ribs are rursiradiate at early growth stages, then become radial to slightly proverse; they terminate at ventral margin with flat, sharp clavi, gently sloping into sides[…]1996, Paleopelagos, volume 6, page 99
5. Narrower at the top.
   • The divide between proverse and obverse markings is obvious, particularly in resting burrows which form the most common type in this group.1970, T. P. Crimes, J. C. Harper, Trace Fossils, page 457
   • Proverse scratches are due to a headdown attitude of the body, whereby only the diggings of the anterior legs are preserved in the undertrace (Pl. 13).2007, Adolf Seilacher, Trace Fossil Analysis, page 192