inverge
English
Verb
inverge (third-person singular simple present inverges, present participle inverging, simple past and past participle inverged)
- (rare) To curve so as to extend into
- 1627, Speed, John, England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland described and abridged (1627):
- And from Reach a Market-Towne ſtanding neere to the River Came, a great Ditch and Trench is caſt all along New-market-Heath, which for the wonder received thereat, is of the vulgar called The Devils Ditch being in truth made for a defence againſt the Mercians by the East-Angles whoſe Kingdom it inverged.
- 1735, Gregory, David, 1659-1708, Dr. Gregory's Elements of catoptrics and dioptrics, →OCLC:
- Teleſcopes made of two Convexes, becauſe of their inverging the Poſition of the Object, are ſeldom uſed, except in obſerving the Stars, the Poſition of which is not regarded.
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