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- noun Plural form of
overturner .
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Examples
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[60] Eversores, "overturners," from overtere, to overthrow or ruin.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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Should there be trouble, which heaven forbid! they would be the instigators, restless mischief-makers and overturners of the established order of things that they are!
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903
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They were happy -- they -- slaves, "speaking tools," -- and she with the blood of the Claudii and Cornelii in her veins, a patrician among patricians, the niece of a consul-elect, a woman who was the heiress of statesmen and overturners of kingdoms, -- _she_ was miserable beyond endurance.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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Then, Congress and the President need to overturn the overturners.
OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion 2010
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Then, Congress and the President need to overturn the overturners.
OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion 2010
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Now those artificial words, by the misapplication and management of which, these overturners of all above them have done such mighty execution, being much too many for a present rehearsal, as I formerly culled out five of the chief and most venomous, by which those wretches ruined and overthrew the ecclesiastical state amongst us, so I shall now pitch upon four of the principal;, by which they did, and hope to do the same feat again upon the monarchy and civil government; it being the usual fate of that and the church, to be supported and run down by the same methods.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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