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Converted

adjective

1.

Spiritually reborn or converted. Synonyms: born-again, reborn.

Convert

verb

(past & past part. converted; pres. part. converting)

1.

Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy. Synonym: change over.

2.

Change the nature, purpose, or function of something. "Convert hotels into jails" , "Convert slaves to laborers"

3.

Change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief.

4.

Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category. Synonyms: change, commute, exchange. "He changed his name" , "Convert centimeters into inches" , "Convert holdings into shares"

5.

Cause to adopt a new or different faith.

6.

Score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone.

7.

Complete successfully.

8.

Score (a spare).

9.

Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something. Synonyms: convince, win over.

10.

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one. Synonyms: commute, exchange.

11.

Change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change.

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"Converted" Quotes from Famous Books

... spirits no longer. I may mention that this insight into an immaterial world (he having been inclined before to pyrrhonism) quite altered his career, and that soon after he took holy orders. In this connection I may state, that according to a printed account I have seen, both Mr. and Mrs. Hall were converted from avowed materialism by spirit manifestation, and that when the question of "Cui bono?" is raised, his experience and that of divers others (the aforesaid Dr. Chambers in particular) will avouch for the practical usefulness ...

— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... midst of our misery "Stand to!" was sounded, necessitating the dropping of all our skin troubles and skedaddling to get to the guns. We ran across an open field that had been converted into a graveyard after the French drove the Germans over on to Vimy Ridge, but there was no thought of sacrilege in our minds as we raced pell-mell over the grave-filled land; there never is but one thought in our minds; we are, every man of us, souls with but a single thought when "Stand ...

— S.O.S. Stand to! • Reginald Grant

... at least, we are "not under theological government," and that was a maxim worth asserting at a time when the dicta of Matthew Arnold and Ruskin were being converted into shibboleths. It is necessary for happiness no less than for honesty that we should realise that poetry, music, and pictures are personal things; that what they are worth to us is their sole measure of value. And here it must be ...

— Personality in Literature • Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

... the mill between his knees, and converted the beans to powder, to the tune of "Old dog Tray" through his nose, which Miss Mattie ...

— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips

... interest in Anette, lingered; it existed in him tangibly, a thing of the flesh, not to be denied. She was all prostitute, Mina Raff had said, using the word in a general sense rather than particularly, without an obvious condemning morality. Indeed, it might easily be converted into a term of praise, for what, necessarily, it described was the incentive that forever drove men out to difficult accomplishment, to anything rather than ease. Good or bad, bad or good—which, such ...

— Cytherea • Joseph Hergesheimer

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