Noah Webster
Pervert
PERVERT', verb transitive [Latin perverto; per and verto, to turn.]
1. To turn from truth, propriety, or from its proper purpose; to distort from its true use or end; as, to pervert reason by misdirecting it; to pervert the laws by misinterpreting and misapplying them; to pervert justice; to pervert the meaning of an author; to pervert nature; to pervert truth.
2. To turn from the right; to corrupt.
He in the serpent had perverted Eve.