deturn

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ turn. Compare detour.

Verb

deturn (third-person singular simple present deturns, present participle deturning, simple past and past participle deturned)

1. (obsolete) To turn away; to divert or deflect.
   • 1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC:

     the force that can deturn a feather from its course downwards, is not able to deturn a ſtone

References

• “deturn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Druten, dunter, retund, runted, turned