rare. [f. TRAVERSE v. on the type of a L. *tra(ns)versiōnem: cf. TRANSVERSION.]

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  1.  † a. The action of traversing or moving sideways in fencing: cf. TRAVERSE v. 5, 15 (obs.). b. The action of traversing a geometrical figure.

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1637.  Nabbes, Microcosm., II. i. C ij b. I was … bred up in Mars his Fencing-schoole: where I … learn’t … Time, motion and action; progression, reversion, and traversion; blowes, thrusts, falses [etc.].

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1905.  Westm. Gaz., 30 Sept., 2/2. The general principles underlying this continuous traversion of figures, complete or incomplete.

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  † 2.  ? The transverse member of a cross. Obs.

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1658.  Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, i. 96. Some [crosses] being … of one single peece without traversion or transome.

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