Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A convert.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A convert.
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- noun obsolete A
convert .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Deci VNMs trebuie să prelucreze o sursă de combustibil pe care le pot transporta cu ei: hidrogen, uraniu, sau alte forme necunoscute pînă acum de materie care pot fi convertite in energie.
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'Me, me: adsum, qui feci; in me convertite ferrum,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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In sum, his philosophy is just Montaigne's, turned to the needs of a broken spirit instead of a confident one -- to the purposes of a chagrined and exhausted convertite instead of a theist of the stately school of
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Many touches in the _Idylls_ other than the title-one are suitable and even subtle; but the convertite in that one is (as they say now) "unconvincing."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Jam fatis circa hunc montem vagati eftis, convertite vos verfus feptentrionem.
Pentateuchus ex recensione textus hebraei et versionum antiquarum latine versus notisque philologicis [microform] Dathe, Johann August, 1731-1791, ed 1791
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a convertite, he could never be prevailed upon to do.
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"Descent from the Cross" at Antwerp (ah! what has become of it?); and his casual discovery and courtship of a girl like that celestial convertite; and her sorrow when she finds that she is only a substitute; and her victory by persuading her lover to paint her _as_ the Magdalen and so work off the witchery. [
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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"Reader."] [Footnote 38: denies: i.e. refuses.] [Footnote 39: convertite: "i.e. convert, as in Shakespeare's KING JOHN, act v.sc. 1."
The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe 1578
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14 Refpondit: Tamet/i malttia fftfM, mùltorumciHe increduliioa, penitis vos atterendi caufim prabeat, ferva - mini eamen. 1 y Tantummodo convertite Vos, é* quante faciem meam:
Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657
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