transversing

Verb

transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed)

1. (transitive) To lie or run across; to cross.
2. (transitive) To traverse or thwart.
3. (transitive) To overturn.
   • And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed, suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?1702, Charles Leslie, The Case of the Regale and of the Pontificate Stated, page 226
4. (transitive) To alter or transform.
   • In love, it is said, all stratagems are fair, and many little ladies transverse the axiom by applying it to discover the secrets of their friends.1859, George Meredith, chapter 13, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, page 68
5. (obsolete, transitive) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
   • Bayes: Why, thus, Sir; nothing so easy when understood; I take a book in my hand, either at home or elsewhere, for that's all one, if there be any wit in't, as there is no book but has some, I transverse it; that is, if it be prose, put it into verse, (but that takes up some time) and if it be...1671, George Villiers, The Rehearsal, published 1770, act 1, scene 1, page 12

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