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  1.  Turned away, turned aside.

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1704.  Swift, Batt. Bks. (1711), 263. The Belt of the averted Antient.

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1807.  Crabbe, Village, I. 289. Impatience mark’d in his averted eyes.

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  2.  Turned away in mind; unfavorable, unpropitious. arch.

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1618.  Bolton, Florus (1636), 99. The gods of Carthage now averted, carried him a diverse way.

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1877.  L. Morris, Epic Hades, I. 16. Appease Zeus and the averted Gods.

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