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He which converteth the sinner from the
error of his way shall save a soul from death.

Lames v. 20.

5. To apply to any use by a diversion
from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or
illegally.

When a bystander took a coin to get it changed,
and converted it, [it was] held no larceny.

Cooley.

6. To exchange for some specified
equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

7. (Logic) To change (one
proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the
first becomes the predicate of the second.

8. To turn into another language; to
translate. [Obs.]

Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly
converted.

B. Jonson.

Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined
with wrought-iron or steel tubes. Farrow. --
Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a
furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by
cementation.

Syn. -- To change; turn; transmute; appropriate.

Con*vert", v. i. To be turned
or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change,
physically or morally.


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