1. The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; — the other side being the reverse.
2. Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things. The fact that it OBVERSELY Defn: In an obverse manner. OBVERSION 1. The act of turning toward or downward. 2. (Logic) Defn: The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as "immediate inference by privative conception." Bain. OBVERT Defn: To turn toward.
Ob*verse"ly, adv.
Ob*ver"sion, n. Etym: [L. obversio a turning towards.]
Ob*vert", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Obverted; p. pr. & vb. n. Obverting.]
Etym: [L. obvertere; ob (see Ob-) + vertere to turn. See Verse.]
If its base be obverted towards us. I. Watts.