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If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they
[the Neboites] would have converted.

Latimer.

A red dust which converth into worms.

Sandys.

The public hope

And eye to thee converting.

Thomson.

Con"vert (?), n. 1.
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.

The Jesuits did not persuade the converts
to lay aside the use of images.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

2. 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.

Syn. -- Proselyte; neophyte. -- Convert,
Proselyte, Pervert. A convert is one who
turns from what he believes to have been a decided error of faith
or practice. Such a change may relate to religion, politics, or
other subjects.


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