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Convert \Con*vert"\, 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.]
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O, which way shall I first convert myself? --B.
Jonson.
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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.
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If the whole atmosphere were converted into water.
--T. Burnet.
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That still lessens
The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. --Milton.
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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.
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No attempt was made to convert the Moslems.
--Prescott.
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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.
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He which converteth the sinner from the error of his
way shall save a soul from death. --Lames v. 20.
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5. To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or
intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
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When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and
converted it, [it was] held no larceny. --Cooley.
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6. To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert
goods into money.
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7. (Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that
what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of
the second.
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8. To turn into another language; to translate. [Obs.]
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Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted.
--B. Jonson.
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{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.
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