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adjective

Conversant adj.

Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. "I have been conversant with the first persons of the age."

Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; generally used with with, sometimes with in. "Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy." "he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all." "Conversant only with the ways of men."

Concerned; occupied. "Education... is conversant about children."

noun

Conversant n. One who converses with another; a convenser. (R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... magnetized; although I have not attempted to verify either of these cases by experiment. However, admitting them to be true, the metal is charged with simply the "nervous fluid." But the fact on which I myself chiefly rely for evidence of this identification, being almost daily conversant with it in my practice, is this: The "nervous influence" obeys the laws of electrical polarization, attraction and repulsion. When I treat a paralyzed part, in which, to all appearance, the action of the nerve force is suspended, ...

— A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication • Daniel Clark

... expected of the teachers in our public schools at the present day in the way of keeping the pupils conversant with the political and scientific questions of the day. While this is as it should be, we believe that if parents would look well to the quality of reading-matter placed before their children better results would be ...

— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 42, August 26, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various

... if any of the defendants, who were foreigners, and not sufficiently conversant with the English language, would wish to hear the evidence read over to them ...

— Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign • John Ashton

... contemporary comments on the occasion of his death, there was one which gave perfect expression to his political position. "His knowledge of men, especially those in high life (with whom he was formerly very conversant) had weakened his attachment to any political party; but, in the main, he was in the interest of civil and religious liberty, in behalf of which he appeared on several remarkable occasions." The men of the time with whom Defoe was brought into contact, were not good examples to him. ...

— Daniel Defoe • William Minto

... ever in any. We did every thing that rational humanity could suggest. I am sorry that you could not have paid us a visit at an earlier period, that you might have judged for yourself. But I presume you are conversant with the ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

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