NP Misc. (from Shakespeare)

[Mark Kohut]

Traversed in Elizabethan era carried a meaning now mostly lost: measured---
since that was often done with pacing off a distance, traversing a space on 
foot................

But, as in Measure for Measure........

And, there had been plenty of uprisings and revolts in Western History
and war was always with us....but the first(?) meaning of 'revolution', before 
the
French, Russian and Industrial was "a turn of the mind' according a footnote
in my Signet edition of Love's Labour's Lost........................