Word Meanings - VERSIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes or favors a version; a translator.

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• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• TRANSLATORSHIP
  The office or dignity of a translator.
• VERSIONIST
  One who makes or favors a version; a translator.
• VERSION
  A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion. 3. The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language. 4. A translation;
• TRANSLATOR
  A repeating instrument. (more info) 1. One who translates; esp., one who renders into another language; one who expresses the sense of words in one language by equivalent words in another.
• TRANSLATORY
  Serving to translate; transferring. Arbuthnot.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• SUBVERSION
  The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The
• SUBVERSIONARY
  Promoting destruction.
• REVERSIONER
  One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.
• TRANSVERSION
  The act of changing from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
• AVERSION
  1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
• ANIMADVERSION
  1. The act or power of perceiving or taking notice; direct or simple perception. The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill. 2. Monition; warning. Clarendon. 3. Remarks by way of criticism
• CONVERSION
  An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras. (more info) 1. The act of turning or changing
• PERVERSION
  The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."
• CONTROVERSION
  Act of controverting; controversy. Hooker.
• CONTRAVERSION
  A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.
• OBVERSION
  The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception." Bain. (more
• UNCONVERSION
  The state of being unconverted; impenitence.
• RETROVERSION
  A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus. Note: In retroversion the bending is gradual or curved; in retroflexion it is abrupt or angular.
• ANTEVERSION
  A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.
• INVERSION
  A movement in tactics by which the order of companies in line is inverted, the right being on the left, the left on the right, and so on. (more info) 1. The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted. 2. A change