v. rare. [f. L. subvers-, pa. ppl. stem of subvertĕre to SUBVERT.] trans. To subvert, upset.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. xii. 42. Those goodly roomes … Now vanisht vtterly, and cleane subuerst She found.
1730–46. Thomson, Autumn, 1128. Empires subvers’d, when ruling Fate has struck Th’ unalterable hour.
1870. Miss Broughton, Red as Rose, I. 24. The fear of subversing the table.
