Mysticism inverts the order, and seems to give more honour to the sanctifying Spirit, than to a crucified Saviour and Redeemer.
Cowper here inverts the order of the names, and attributes to Teucer, what in the original is ascribed to Meriones.
In regard to the study of Resemblances, he inverts the above precept, and directs us to note especially the points of resemblance between subjects of great apparent difference.
When such a collection is reabsorbed, it is not always returned into the circulation; but the same irritation that stimulates one lymphatic branch to reabsorb the deposited fluid, inverts the urinary branch, and pours it into the bladder.
Medicines producing much pale urine, as a certain quantity of alcohol, invert the motions of the urinary absorbents; if the dose of alcohol is greater, it inverts the stomach, producing the drunken sickness.
Paley's method of treatment, they would say, inverts the relation in which theism stands to morality.
From the first dawn of sexual feeling in youth, male inverts have the same feelings as girls toward other boys.
It is the inverts themselves, aided by psychiatrists, who have finally thrown light on the subject.
The inverts themselves maintain that it was the same with Plato, Frederick the Great, Socrates, etc.
We sometimes meet with inverts who desire to procreate homosexual beings like themselves.
I have treated a great number of inverts and have always been struck with the intensity of their passion.
In this way the life of most well-to-do inverts is ruined by perpetual anxieties, emotions and torments, because their morbid appetite instinctively urges them to abandon themselves to men who feel differently to themselves.
Unfortunately, our present laws and customs prevent us from recommending or even allowing inverts to "marry" their fellows, as they so strongly desire to do.
Inverts of this class often commit suicide, after having carried on in silence a desperate struggle against their morbid appetite, because they prefer death to defeat, which they consider a dishonor.
A second very grave result of homosexual love is the continual blackmail which is levied on inverts by all kinds of scamps.
Female inverts have been known to wear men's uniforms and perform military service for years, and even behave as heroes; their sex sometimes only being discovered after their death.
The inverts with whom we have most to do, especially in public asylums and at the courts of justice, are cynics and debauchees in spite of the ideal which they parade; but we should be wrong in concluding that this is always the case.
It is called Lesbian love or saphism; and the women inverts are known as tribades.
Inverts should be specially supervised and taken care of till adult age.
He does not believe, however, that in practice the laying of broken stone under inverts will materially change the ultimate pressure unless its cross-section represents a large area.
It has been the practice lately, among some engineers in Boston, as well as in New York City, to assume that water pressures on the underside of inverts is exerted on one-half the area only.
It inverts the usual order of similar psalms, in which the description of need is wont to precede the prayer for deliverance.
Finally, it inverts all ideas of justice in commerce.
Type E inverts the rhythm of D, as in the half-line "gylp-wordum spræc.
It is in condescension to Greek notions that Berosus inverts the true Chaldaean order, and places the sun before the moon in his enumeration of the heavenly bodies.
One tablet, however, invertsthe genealogy, and makes Bel-Nimrod the son of Nin, instead of his father.
I have sought only to bring out the more salient points, neglecting minor points, neglecting also those groups of inverts who may be regarded as of secondary importance.
To go still farther and include trivial things, few inverts even smoke in the same manner and with the same enjoyment as a man; they have seldom the male facility at games, cannot throw at a mark with precision, or even spit!
Ulrichs explained the matter by saying that in sexualinverts a male body coexists with a female soul: anima muliebris in corpore virile inclusa.
As a rule, inverts have no desire to be different from what they are, and, if they have any desire for marriage, it is usually only momentary.
Many years ago we used to be told that inverts are such lying and deceitful degenerates that it was impossible to place reliance on anything they said.
Näcke, who attached significance to the stigmata of degeneration when numerous, was especially active in pointing out that inverts are not degenerate, and frequently returned to this point.
While among a considerable section of inverts it is not more marked than among the non-inverted, if not, indeed, less marked, among another section it is found in an exaggerated degree.
The frequent inability of male inverts to whistle was first pointed out by Ulrichs, and Hirschfeld has found it in 23 per cent.
Inverts are males capable of passionate friendship, and their ideal is the male who will give them passionate friendship in return.
It cannot be maintained that the frequency of inversion among the near relatives of inverts is a chance coincidence, for it must be remembered that few estimates of the prevalence of inversion yield a higher proportion than 3 per cent.
Germany, where inverts are better informed on the subject of this anomaly, for here 95 per cent.
When used with both eyes, the same as the stereoscope, it inverts the relief of a solid body, and makes it appear exactly as if it were an intaglio, or sunk beneath the line surrounding it.
For the difficulties entailed in the attempt to ascertain the proportional number ofinverts compare the work of M.
We have, moreover, frequently found that alleged inverts are by no means indifferent to the charms of women, but the excitation evoked by the woman is always transferred to a male object.
Hence, the propensity of those holding this view to separate the group of absolute inverts from the others results in the abandonment of the general conception of inversion.
We must agree with the spokesman of "Uranism" that some of the most prominent men known have been inverts and perhaps absolute inverts.
A spokesman of the masculine inverts stated the bisexual theory in its crudest form in the following words: "It is a female brain in a male body.
In many inverts (even absolute ones) an early affective sexual impression can be demonstrated, as a result of which the homosexual inclination developed.
On the contrary, it seems that the pedicatio of the man owes its rôle to the analogy with the act in the woman, whereas among inverts it is mutual masturbation which is the most common sexual aim.
The conclusions reached through the investigation of sexual inverts are all based on the reports of J.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inverts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
