Middle English Dictionary Entry
inverse adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | inverse adj. |
| Etymology | L inversus, ppl. of invertere. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Turned upside down.
Associated quotations
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)4.134 : The tasul seede ynuerse [L inuersa] is not to sette.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1500 15c.Serm.Cycle (Glo 22)177/164 : To make a schorte conclucion in þis long matter of þe worlde, it stondythe invysers, semyng one and is anoþer; to seme frendly witheowte and is withein an enmye.
Note: Editor's note: "invysers: a form unrecorded in either MED or OED. The former records three instances of the form inverse, used adjectivally, and one form, inversed/enversed, of the participial adjective. None is earlier tha[n] the first half of the fifteenth century." Glossary: "invysers adj. 'inverse, inverted'."
Note: New form, ?error.