Word Meanings - OBVERSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception." Bain. (more

Additional info about word: OBVERSION

The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception." Bain. (more info) 1. The act of turning toward or downward.

Related words: (words related to OBVERSION)

• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• IMMORTALIST
  One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. Jer. Taylor.
• IMMORTAL
  1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal
• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• IMMEDIATE
  1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak.
• AFFIRMATORY
  Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. Massey.
• CONCEPTIONALIST
  A conceptualist.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• IMMORTALIZE
  1. To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever. S. Clarke. 2. To exempt from oblivion; to perpetuate in fame. Alexander had no Homer to immortalize his quilty name. T. Dawes.
• DESCRIBER
  One who describes.
• IMMEDIATENESS
  The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes. Bp. Hall.
• DESCRIBENT
  See GENERATRIX
• PRIVATIVE
  Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. un-, non-, -less. (more info) 1. Causing privation; depriving. 2. Consisting in the
• IMMORTALLY
  In an immortal manner.
• AFFIRMANT
  One who affirms of taking an oath. (more info) 1. One who affirms or asserts.
• MORTALITY
  1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew. 2. Human life; the life of a mortal being. From this instant There 's nothing serious
• MORTAL
  fr. moriri 8die; akin to E. murder. See Murder, and cf. Filemot, Mere 1. Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal. 2. Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a
• IMMEDIATELY
  1. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• PRECONCEPTION
  The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
• REAFFIRMANCE; REAFFIRMATION
  A second affirmation.
• MISDESCRIBE
  To describe wrongly.
• MISAFFIRM
  To affirm incorrectly.