Revert | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Re-vĕrt′, v. t.

verbtransitive

(14), v. t. [imp. & p. p. REVERTED; p. pr. & vb. n. REVERTING.] [Lat. revertere, from re, again, back, and vertere, to turn; O. Fr. & Pr. revertir, O. Sp. reverter, O. It. rivertere, rivertire. Cf. REVERSE.]

Sense 1. To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.

Till happy chance revert the cruel scene. Prior.

Sense 2. To drive or turn back; to reverberate.

The stream, . . .

Reverted, plays in undulated flow. Thomson.

To revert a series (Math.), to take its terms inversely, making them follow each other in a contrary order.

Math. Dict.

Re-vĕrt', v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To return; to fall back. 2. (Law.) To return to the proprietor, after the determination of a particular estate granted by him.

Re-vērt', n.

noun

n. 1. One who, or that which, reverts. [Obs.] “An active promoter in making the East Saxons converts, or rather reverts, to the faith.” Fuller.

Sense 2. (Mus.) Return; recurrence. Peacham.