n. 1. A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

Syn. -- Proselyte; neophyte. -- Convert, Proselyte, Pervert. A convert is one who turns from what he believes to have been a decided error of faith or practice. Such a change may relate to religion, politics, or other subjects. properly considered, it is not confined to speculation alone, but affects the whole current of one's feelings and the tenor of his actions. As such a change carries with it the appearance of sincerity, the term convert is usually taken in a good sense. Proselyte is a term of more ambiguous use and application. It was first applied to an adherent of one religious system who had transferred himself externally to some other religious system; and is also applied to one who makes a similar transfer in respect to systems of philosophy or speculation. The term has little or no reference to the state of the heart. Pervert is a term of recent origin, designed to express the contrary of convert, and to stigmatize a person as drawn off perverted from the true faith. It has been more particulary applied by members of the Church of England to those who have joined the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Converted; p. pr. & vb. n. Converting. ] [ L. convertere, -versum; con- + vertere to turn: cf. F. convertir. See Verse. ] 1. To cause to turn; to turn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O, which way shall I first convert myself? B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the whole atmosphere were converted into water. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

That still lessens
The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

No attempt was made to convert the Moslems. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. Lames v. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [ it was ] held no larceny. Cooley. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To turn into another language; to translate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes. Farrow. --
Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.

Syn. -- To change; turn; transmute; appropriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally. [ 1913 Webster ]

If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [ the Neboites ] would have converted. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A red dust which converth into worms. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

The public hope
And eye to thee converting. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner.
Syn. -- born-again, reborn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. convertenus to be converted. ] (Logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who converts; one who makes converts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Steel Manuf.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. convertibilis: cf. F. convertible. ] 1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. [ 1913 Webster ]

So long as we are in the regions of nature, miraculous and improbable, miraculous and incredible, may be allowed to remain convertible terms. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being convertible; convertibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a convertible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. convertito, p. p. of convertire to convert. ] A convert. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a device for changing one substance or form or state into another.
Syn. -- converter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Not turned or changed about. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inconvertibilitas. ] The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconvertibilis: cf. F. inconvertible. See In- not, and Convertible. ] Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inconvertibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an inconvertible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To convert again. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who has been reconverted. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not converted or exchanged. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

(a) Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

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