deturn
verbEtymology From de- + turn. Compare detour.
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Obsolete To turn away; to divert or deflect.
- the force that can deturn a feather from its course downwards, is not able to deturn a ſtone1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC: