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/kˈɑnvərs/ /kənvˈərs/ Listen

verb

Converse v. i. (past & past part. conversed; pres. part. conversing)

To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with. "To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature." "Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions." "But to converse with heaven - This is not easy."

To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing. "Companions That do converse and waste the time together." "We had conversed so often on that subject."

To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; said of things. "According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety."

Synonyms: To associate; commune; discourse; talk; chat.

noun

Converse n.

Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association. "'T is but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled."

Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat. "Formed by thy converse happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe."

Converse n.

(Logic) A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue. Note: It should not (as is often done) be confounded with the contrary or opposite of a proposition, which is formed by introducing the negative not or no.

(Math.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.

adjective

Converse adj. Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Converse" Quotes from Famous Books

... individually to consult their own fancies in their dresses, for the native taste in dress is generally very good. Our three elephants came on abreast, and the Raja and I conversed as freely as men in such situations can converse. He is a stout, cheerful old gentleman, as careless apparently about his own dress as about that of his soldiers, and a much more sensible and agreeable person than I expected; and I was sorry to learn from him that he had for twelve years been suffering from an ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... subjects and matter: how temporary, how vile are they I such as may be in the power and possession of some abominable loose liver, of some common strumpet, of some notorious oppressor and extortioner. Pass from thence to the dispositions of them that thou doest ordinarily converse with, how hardly do we bear, even with the most loving and amiable! that I may not say, how hard it is for us to bear even with our own selves, in such obscurity, and impurity of things: in such ...

— Meditations • Marcus Aurelius

... ancient rooms favoured the intriguer, for the hangings were suspended a foot or two away from the wall, and a man or a woman, for that matter, might easily slip behind and witness conversations to which the listener had not been invited. So it was customary on occasions of intimate and secret converse lightly to thrust a sharpened blade behind the curtains. If, as in the case in "Hamlet," the sword pierced a human quarry, so much the worse for the listener who thus gained ...

— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee

... has been deeply interested in this subject, leading me to converse with parents and with ministers, and to make observation with regard to it, I have seen and heard many things relating to the providences of God, in connection with the baptism of children, which, while we ought ...

— Bertha and Her Baptism • Nehemiah Adams

... The next morning I crossed the Mississippi on very bad ice, but the Great Spirit had made it strong, that I might pass over safe. I traveled three days farther to see the Winnebago sub-agent and converse with him about our difficulties. He gave no better news than the trader had done. I then started by way of Rock river, to see the Prophet, believing that he as a man of great knowledge. When we met, I explained to him everything ...

— Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk • Black Hawk

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