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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Subvert

Sub-vẽrt', v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. SUBVERTED; p. pr. & vb. n. SUBVERTING.] [Lat. subvertere, subversum, from prefix sub, under, and vertere, to turn; Fr. subvertir, Sp. subvertir, suvertir, It. sovvertere, sovvertire.]

Sense 1. To overthrow from the foundation; to overturn; to ruin utterly.

This would subvert the principles of all knowledge. Locke.

Sense 2. To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.

Synonyms— To overturn; overthrow; destroy; invert; reverse; extinguish.

Sub-vẽrt', v. i.

verbintransitive

To overthrow any thing from the foundation; to be subversive.

They have a power given to them like that of the evil principle, to subvert and destroy. Burke.