Verb (used without object) : They reverted to the ways of their forefathers. ,He constantly reverted to his childhood. From Dictionary.com.
Consequently he assigned to Angelo an income revertible after his death to Madam Solimann. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
The alert warned about a kind of complex security sold under a variety of proprietary names, including "reverse convertible securities" and "revertible notes.". From Wordnik.com. [Don't Count On The Government To Save You From The Sharks] Reference
It's not such a bad idea to sterilize everyone with a revertible method until they are ready to be parents and keen enough to have a marriage, a job and a home to support their offspring. From Wordnik.com. [A non-sterilised observation] Reference
Earlier this year these securities -- sometimes referred to as "revertible notes" -- were touting coupon rates of 10% or more. From Wordnik.com. [Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com] Reference
Polignac family, most of them revertible from one member to another, and nearly 2,000,000 of annual benefits to the Noailles family. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
Patent and Trademark Office for revertible and failsafe features of the company's already patented in-place update methods for managing software on mobile devices. From Wordnik.com. Reference
By leveraging revertible hot spare and predictive failure event notifications to automatically initiate a rebuild to a spare, data is preserved on an SSD whose health or performance falls below par. From Wordnik.com. [WebWire | Recent Headlines] Reference
Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon -- The natural and very earnest wish of Moses to be allowed to cross the Jordan was founded on the idea that the divine threatening might be conditional and revertible. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
I mentioned the Morels, and he begged me, at the same time giving me the necessary funds, which I will hand to you presently, to request you to settle an annuity of two thousand francs on Morel, revertible to his wife and children. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Paris, V3] Reference
None of these circumstances, as may be imagined, had been cited in the petition; but, when they came to the Emperor's knowledge, he did not withdraw the pension, for which the order had not yet been given, but simply changed its destination, and gave it to the first wife of -- General Dupont-Derval, making it revertible to her daughter, though she was sufficiently wealthy not to need it, and the other Madame Dupont-Derval was in actual need. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the private life of Napoleon]
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