n. A controverser. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving or tending to divert; also, distinguishing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. diversorium, deversorium, an inn or lodging. ] A wayside inn. [ Obs. or R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Too soon. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To grieve or afflict to excess. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The all-containing soul. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That unity, that oversoul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. ofersawan. ] To sow where something has already been sown. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His enemy came and oversowed cockle among the wheat. Matt. xiii. 25. (Douay Version). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not involving controversy. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to universology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is versed in universology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Universe + -logy. ] The science of the universe, and the relations which it involves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. versus, p. p. of vertere to turn: cf. F. verso. ] (Print.) The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. L. vertere, versus, to turn. See Version. ] (Geom.) The turning factor of a quaternion. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The change of one vector into another is considered in quaternions as made up of two operations; 1st, the rotation of the first vector so that it shall be parallel to the second; 2d, the change of length so that the first vector shall be equal to the second. That which expresses in amount and kind the first operation is a versor, and is denoted geometrically by a line at right angles to the plane in which the rotation takes place, the length of this line being proportioned to the amount of rotation. That which expresses the second operation is a tensor. The product of the versor and tensor expresses the total operation, and is called a quaternion. See Quaternion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quadrantal versor. See under Quadrantal. [ 1913 Webster ]