Convert
King James Dictionary [1]
CONVERT, L., to turn coinciding in elements and signification with barter.
1. To change or turn into another substance or form as, to convert gases into water, or water into ice. 2. To change from one state to another as, to convert a barren waste into a fruitful field to convert a wilderness into a garden to convert rude savages into civilized men. 3. To change or turn from one religion to another, or from one party or sect to another as, to convert pagans to Christianity to convert royalists into republicans. 4. To turn from a bad life to a good one to change the heart and moral character, from enmity to God and from vicious habits, to love of God and to a holy life.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. Acts 3 .
He that converteth a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death. James 5 .
5. To turn toward a point.
Crystal will callify into electricity, and convert the needle freely placed. Unusual.
6. To turn from one use or destination to another as, to convert liberty into an engine of oppression. 7. To appropriate or apply to ones own use, or to personal benefit as, to convert public property to our own use. 8. To change one proposition into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second as, all sin is a transgression of the law but every transgression of the law is sin. 9. To turn into another language.
CONVERT, To turn or be changed to undergo a change.
The love of wicked friends converts to fear that fear, to hate.
CONVERT, n.
1. A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another a person who renounces one creed, religious system or party, and embraces another applied particularly to those who change their religious opinions, but applicable to political and philosophical sects. 2. In a more strict sense, one who is turned from sin to holiness.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. Isaiah 1 .
3. In monasteries, a lay-friar or brother, admitted to the service of the house, without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) 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.
(2): (n.) 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.
(3): (v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.
(4): (v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
(5): (v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.
(6): (v. t.) To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.
(7): (v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.
(8): (v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
(9): (v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
(10): (v. t.) To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.
(11): (v. t.) To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [3]
A person who is converted. In a monastic sense, converts are lay friars, or brothers admitted for the service of the house, without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
