Con-vĕr'sion, n.
n. [Lat. conversio, Fr. & Sp. conversion, Pr. conversio, It. conversione. See CONVERT.]
Sense 1. The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another; transmutation. “The conversion of water into ice.” Bacon. “The conversion of the aliment into fat.” Arbuthnot.
Sense 2. A change from one side, party, or form of religion to another. “Conversion to Christianity.” Prescott.
Sense 3. (Law.) An appropriation of property, constituting one of the grounds of the action of trover.
Or bring my action of conversion And trover for my goods. Hudibras.
Sense 4. (Logic.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.
Sense 5. (Math.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.
Sense 6. (Mil.) A change of front, as of a body of troops attacked in the flank.
Sense 7. (Theol.) A radical change of moral character; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, and the appropriate effect in transforming the outward life.
He oft Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached Conversion and repentance to souls In prison under judgments imminent. Milton.