| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PREFIX: | Inverse; inversely: obcordate. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin, short for obvers , obversely, from Latin obversus, past participle of obvertere, to turn toward : ob-, toward, against (from ob, toward, against, before; see epi in Appendix I) + vertere, to turn; see versus.
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