Sentences with 'reverted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reverted and other words derived from it.
• « Since there was no currency, 'payment' to scribes usually took the form of fiefdoms (i.e. land grants) that reverted to royal possessions after the official's death, a practice that atrophied after the fall of the Old Kingdom. »
• « Agriculture reverted to subsistence levels, and trade with neighbouring areas all but disappeared. »
• « Legal power over the woman passed from the father to the husband, and in case of divorce reverted to the father. »
• « In 1562, Bishop Diego de Landa, fearing that the native converts had reverted to their traditional religious practices, collected and burned all the codices he could find. Today only a few survive. »