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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Converted; p. pr. & vb. n. Converting. ] [ L. convertere, -versum; con- + vertere to turn: cf. F. convertir. See Verse. ] 1. To cause to turn; to turn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O, which way shall I first convert myself? B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the whole atmosphere were converted into water. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

That still lessens
The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

No attempt was made to convert the Moslems. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. Lames v. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [ it was ] held no larceny. Cooley. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To turn into another language; to translate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes. Farrow. --
Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.

Syn. -- To change; turn; transmute; appropriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally. [ 1913 Webster ]

If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [ the Neboites ] would have converted. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A red dust which converth into worms. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

The public hope
And eye to thee converting. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner.
Syn. -- born-again, reborn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. convertenus to be converted. ] (Logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who converts; one who makes converts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Steel Manuf.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. convertibilis: cf. F. convertible. ] 1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. [ 1913 Webster ]

So long as we are in the regions of nature, miraculous and improbable, miraculous and incredible, may be allowed to remain convertible terms. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being convertible; convertibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a convertible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. convertito, p. p. of convertire to convert. ] A convert. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a device for changing one substance or form or state into another.
Syn. -- converter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Not turned or changed about. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inconvertibilitas. ] The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconvertibilis: cf. F. inconvertible. See In- not, and Convertible. ] Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inconvertibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an inconvertible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To convert again. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who has been reconverted. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not converted or exchanged. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]