revertent
English
Noun
revertent (plural revertents)
- (medicine, obsolete) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of E. Darwin to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for revertent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: reverte, revertes
Verb
revertent
- third-person plural present indicative of reverter
- third-person plural present subjunctive of reverter
Latin
Verb
revertent
- third-person plural future active indicative of revertō