advert

t. [Lat. aver to: a = from; ver to =to turn. The d is improperly inserted.] To avert, to turn away from. ( Scotch.) "Frae my sinnes advert thy face." Poems , 16th cent IMG:content-0212.png:[blocks in formation] "And all his advert ance that in his court dwellia." -Rauf Coil year . 2. Adherents, abettors, advisers. "Schir William of Crechtoun and Schir George of Crechtoun, and thar advertence."- Short Chron. of Jas, 11., p. 36.