LekhoriLekhoriTurned aside while against something, splitting off from a thing.
Any man who succeeds in diverting the public taste, or in turning back a perverse stream which will flow in the direction of the ditch, leaves a mark, as it were, and cannot be overlooked by posterity.
Morally wrong or evil; wicked; perverted.
Obstinately in the wrong; stubborn; intractable.
A chiral opposite of something; a mirror image with opposite handedness.
If two antipodal points move continuously on the sphere, they trace out what are called symmetric figures. These figures have corresponding elements equal, and are equal in area, but are not in general superposable. The one is, in fact, the perverse of the other.
To pervert.
This rule hath been always for the commodity of that kingdom, where as the powers have been thus by them perversed.
From Middle English perverse, pervers, from Old French pervers, from Latin perversum (“thoroughly turned”), past participle of pervertere, from per- (“thoroughly”) + vertere (“to turn”).
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