perversed

adj

1. (obsolete)Split off; isolated; unconnected.

   “He describes the people of Maine in these words: "Magistrates, Husbandmen or Planters and fishermen; of the magistrates some be royalists, the rest perversed spirits, the like are the planters and fishers, of which some be planters and fishers both, others meer fishers; there are but few handscraftmen, and no shopkeepers; English goods being kept by the Massachusetts merchants, here and there, on the coast, at a profit of one per cent. in exchange for fish."”

   “A dull, heavy headache is frequently present, cutaneous sensibility of often perversed sharp pains, numbness, itching, etc.”

   “Sexuality is perversed when it is reduced to one of its separate components.”

2. Distorted; changed for the worse.

   “Such a condition indicates perversed physiological function or pathology, or possibly the two combined, and may have origin in the gastro-intestinal tract, the cardio-vascular, cardio-renal, respiratory, or any other system in the body.”

   “The patient becomes listless, sluggish, irritable, perversed in desires, unreasonable and passes through varied stages of mental decay to ultimate insanity.”

   “The democracy distilled and diluted by these repressive organs has to be perversed democracy.”

   “As regards the type of metabolism peculiar to it, this protein is similar to the primitive live substance, the difference between them being that the cancerous protein has the faculty of forming tumorous cells that retain in the cellular stage the perversed type of metabolism characterized by the predominance of growth over development (differentiation), resulting in an intense growth of the cancer cells.”

   “We have to understand that images are reversed in a mirror and that certain things on earth have the same meaning in heaven. They are just reversed because this world is perversed.”

3. Perverted; morally wrong; wicked; corrupt.

   “It was by associating with a sexually perversed person that I learned to regard my experience with women as a symptom of my affliction and gradually drifted into my present occupation.”

   “The Works of the Lord are praise-worthy with the innocent: but they which travell on perversed ways, shall be ashamed.”

   “Management is perversed. In a big department store, I asked the manager why the labelled FIRE EXIT doors were locked. He said there is no fire in this time; the printed signs are demanded by stupid fire regulations only.”

   “Did he have any obligation, legal or otherwise, to enter into such a disruptive, confused and perversed situation, all manipulated by evil intent, only because Satan said so?”

4. Contrary;vexing; wayward.

   “Yes, but you are so perversed and old - fashioned. Your notions would make us all as solemn and dull as a parcel of monks.”

   “Felix, being in a perversed mood, contended that universal suffrage would be equally agreeable to the devil; that he would change his politics a little, have a larger traffic, and see himself more fully represented in Parliament.”

   “Efforts were, therefore, made to keep him in good humour, but he remained dogged and perversed, refusing to see the Magistrate.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of perverse