Definition of "transverse"
verb
third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed
(obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
Quotations
Bayes: Why, thus, Sir; nothing so easy when understood; I take a book in my hand, either at home or elsewhere, for that's all one, if there be any wit in't, as there is no book but has some, I transverse it; that is, if it be prose, put it into verse, (but that takes up some time) and if it be verse, put it into prose.
1671, George Villiers, The Rehearsal, published 1770, act 1, scene 1, page 12