withturnen

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To turn around; turn back or away.
 * 2) * 1563, Mirror for Magistrates:
 * "enm"

- But God of Justyce had withturnd that fate, Which where hit ought, lyght on hys proper pate.


 * 1) To be converted.
 * 2) * 1470, Thomas Mallory, quoted by Barbara W. Tuchman in Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour:
 * "enm"

- In that account Joseph, “by fortune come unto thys lande that at that time was called Grete Bretayne,” was able to “disheryt” a “grete felon paynim” who ruled the country, and “after that all the people withturned to the Crystyn feythe.