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To cause to turn; to turn. |
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To change or turn from one state or condition to
another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to
transmute; as, to convert water into ice. |
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To change or turn from one belief or course to another,
as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another. |
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To produce the spiritual change called conversion in
(any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart
and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to
that of holiness. |
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To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or
intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. |
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To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to
convert goods into money. |
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To change (one proposition) into another, so that what
was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. |
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To turn into another language; to translate. |
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To be turned or changed in character or direction; to
undergo a change, physically or morally. |
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A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to
another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed,
religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed;
especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of
holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. |
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A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for
the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing
in the choir. |
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