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单词 converse
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conversen.1

/ˈkɒnvəs/
Etymology: < converse v., c1600; originally, like the verb, stressed conˈverse.
†1.
a. Intercourse; = conversation n. 2, 3 Obsolete except in certain expressions now referred to 3.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > [noun]
conversationc1340
dolea1400
repairc1425
fellowshipc1450
frequentation?1520
communion1529
society1531
commerce1537
commercement1537
society1538
trade1555
intercourse1557
company1576
intercommunication1586
interdeal1591
entertain1602
consort1607
entregent1607
quarter1608
commercing1610
converse1610
trucka1625
congress1628
socialty1638
frequency1642
socialitya1649
socialness1727
intercommuniona1761
social life1812
dialogue1890
discourse1963
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun]
ymonec888
i-mennessec1050
meanc1175
ferredc1200
fellowshipa1225
fellowredc1230
sameningc1230
companyc1275
monec1300
conversationc1340
meanness1340
affinity?c1400
companyingc1443
compernagea1500
frequentation?1520
society1529
convoying1543
companionship1548
companyship1548
combining1552
haunt1552
community1570
unition1584
consociation1593
companionry1595
sodality1602
conversinga1610
converse1610
consorting1611
consociety1624
consociating1625
togetherness1656
association1659
consortiona1682
sociality1758
mixture1764
junction1783
consortation1796
conversancy1798
mingling1819
companionage1838
boon companionship1844
mateship1849
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. vi. 103 The mutuall conuerse of humane Society.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 50 Enfeebled with the continual conuerse of women.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 378 By converse or copulation. View more context for this quotation
1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii. iv. 57 Sociablenesse or love of converse.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 221 Free Converse, Traffick, and Commerce.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 175. ⁋16 Thus numerous are the dangers to which the converse of mankind exposes us.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. vii. 146 Converse with the world will do more for you.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. v. 84 I have returned from the converse of the streets as from a forgotten dream.
†b. Formerly with a and plural. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1664 N. Ingelo Bentivolio & Urania: 2nd Pt. vi. 200 God..nourish'd it by a Converse with the first Man whom he made.
1676 J. Glanvill Seasonable Refl. 176 Thus we dress ourselves for publique converses.
†2. Familiar engagement or occupation (with things); = conversation n. 4. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [noun]
enqueyntance1297
knowledgec1384
homeliness1402
acquaintancec1540
familiarity1574
habit1586
discourse1603
frequence1603
familiarness1612
conversationa1626
conversea1652
acquaintedness1661
intimacy1714
inquaintancea1834
hability1840
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > accustomedness > familiarity with a thing > frequent or familiar use
frequentation1525
conversationa1626
frequency1642
conversea1652
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. iv. 322 Dwelling..in a carnal converse with these Sacramental Symbols.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 199 Long Experience, and continual Converse among Troubles.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 114 A strange Diver, by his continual converse in water, degenerated.
1709 J. Reynolds Death's Vision i. 1 To Abandon all that's Dear..My Friends and Studies too, And All my Known Converses Here.
3.
a. Familiar interchange of thoughts; discourse, talk; = conversation n. 7. Now poetic or rhetorical.Quot. a1616 may belong to 1.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting
aughteOE
redeOE
somrunec1275
speakingc1275
counselc1290
deliberationc1405
advisement1414
commoninga1425
communingc1425
imparlement1450
imparling1450
parleyc1490
parleying1508
counselment1523
parling1527
counsellinga1533
practice1540
interview1541
consultation1548
parliance1553
conference1555
enterparling1557
consult1560
imparlee1565
parlance1577
imparlance1579
parliamenting1582
deliberative1590
converse1614
parliamentation1622
powwowing1642
consulting1823
powwowism1873
1614 R. Tailor Hogge hath lost Pearle i. i It [Latin] is so much my often converse, that if there be none but women in my company, yet cannot I forbear it.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. i. 37 A meane to draw the Moore Out of the way, that your conuerse and businesse, May be more free. View more context for this quotation]
1650 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. (1654) i. 171 Upon converse, finding his sufficiency, he inquired the cause of his voyage.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 355 Sweet is thy converse to each social ear.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 28 And told her all their converse in the hall.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men II. xii. 416 His converse at such seasons was always elevating.
†b. Formerly with a and plural. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > a, the, or this conversation
speakc1300
dialoguec1450
speech1469
talk1548
colloquy1581
enterparlance1595
dialogism1603
colloquium1609
discourse1632
conversea1645
colloque1658
conversation1694
say1786
intercommune1820
tell1864
chin1877
conversation piece1936
rabbit1941
rabbit and pork1941
goss1983
a1645 W. Browne tr. M. Le Roy Hist. Polexander (1647) iii. iv. 113 In this manner ended the first converse (now) betwixt Zabaim and Almanzaira.
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. vii. 61 It will be difficult in these converses not to talk of secular matters.
1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. iii. 37 By daily converses build them up and make them better.
1798 S. Rogers Epist. to Friend 99 Still prompt to charm with many a converse sweet.
c. Interchange of thoughts otherwise than by speech.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > [noun] > non-verbal communication
converse1758
non-language1928
1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. p. xi The leading topics of our epistolary converse.
1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind iii. 35 The same signs [i.e. gestures] serve as a medium of converse.
4. Spiritual or mental intercourse; communion.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > communion > [noun]
fellowredc1230
commonc1300
communing1357
brotherheadc1384
fellowshipc1384
commoninga1400
communionc1405
brotherhooda1425
sodality1602
consent1635
correspondence1642
converse1668
koinonia1907
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun] > communion between man and spiritual things
intercourse1561
converse1668
1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 87 In the wonted course of our converses with God.
1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity ii. §7. 32 Gods Converse with Man..was by the immediate manifestation of his Spirit.
1750 W. Shenstone Rural Elegance 217 With Nature here high converse hold.
a1831 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 74 A person who is much occupied in inward converse with God.
1872 J. G. Holland Marble Prophecy 10 In converse with the thoughts of manlier men.
†5. Manner of life, ‘conversation’. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > in social intercourse
semblantc1330
conversationa1340
affairsa1400
entertainment1531
carriage1588
converse1660
1660 R. South Eccl. Policy 2 in Interest Deposed The true Worship of God, and the converse of those that use it.
1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. Introd. 19 To be avoided in all Affairs of civil Society and commerce, as..Persons of an infectious Converse.
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† converseadj.1n.2

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s convers.
Etymology: < French convers, -se, < Latin conversus turned, past participle of convertĕre to convert v.
Obsolete.
A. adj.1
Converted in mind or feeling.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > [adjective] > changed in mind or feeling
conversea1400
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19736 Fra þat time men cald him ai Conuers paule in godds lai.
1436 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 203 That oure verry foo Mow be to us convers and torned.
B. n.2
1. A convert.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > [noun] > one who has undergone
proselytec1384
converse1388
convert1561
convertitec1592
convertist1611
missionary1834
mihanere1840
vert1864
proselytess1879
1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Chron. xxii. 2 Conuersis for hethenesse to the lawe of Israel.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 178/3 Somme converses of the Jewes wold mynysshe the bounte of the grace of god.
2.
a. Ecclesiastical. A lay member of a convent; a lay brother or sister.Originally applied to those who were converted from a secular to ‘religious’ life in adult age, as opposed to the nutriti who had been brought up in the monastic life from childhood: see Du Cange.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > church government > laity > lay brother or sister > [noun]
conversec1500
convert1577
oblat1656
oblate1693
donate1804
14.. Prose Leg. in Anglia (1885) 8 135 In þe steppes of þe conuerses or monkes.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 240/2 A frere conuerse began to be tormented of the deuyl.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 100 Thabbot and an houndred monkkis, beside the convers.
1512 Countess of Richmond in Nichols Royal Wills (1780) 368 Oon perpetuell brother, called a converse..specially to serve the same monks at their masses.
1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 178 The Fifth Monastery..contains the Brothers Converses.
b. Often in the Latin form conversus, plural -i.
ΚΠ
1777 Archaeologia 4 38 He was conversus, a lay-brother.
1863 J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains I. 71 It [South Park Abbey] contained not less than sixty-six monks and one hundred and fifty conversi.
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converseadj.2n.3

Brit. /ˈkɒnvəːs/, /kənˈvəːs/, U.S. /ˈkɑnˌvərs/, /kənˈvərs/
Etymology: < Latin conversus turned about, transformed, past participle of convertĕre : see convert v. La converse occurs in French from 13th cent., = Provençal conversa, medieval Latin conversa.
A. adj.2
1. Turned round; opposite or contrary in direction or action; acting in reverse manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] > opposite or opposed
turneda1325
reversedc1390
contrary1413
opposeda1500
oppositea1513
inverted1563
counter1596
diametrical1613
contraposed1620
oppositive1622
averse1623
diagonial1624
contrarying1628
diametrala1631
conversive1636
Antipodian1640
converted1640
exadverse1647
Antarctic1651
Antipodean1651
antipodal1664
in reverse1694
contradictory1736
converse1794
antithesistic1801
contravening1802
diametric1802
reverse1828
polar1832
antipodist1844
antithetic1864
other-sided1879
antipodic1881
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 355 The transformation of vapour into air [and] the converse change.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iv. §26 As in this case..so in the converse case.
1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VII. lxxi. 5 The converse arts of destruction and defence.
1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 227 Now of Zephuros Euros is the converse wind from the opposite point of heaven.
†2. Mathematics. converse ratio, proportion: see quots.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > [adjective] > converse
conversed1557
converse ratio1570
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. v. f. 133v Conuerse proportion, or proportion by conuersion is, when the consequent is taken as the antecedent, and so is compared to the antecedent as to the consequent.
1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements v. 94 Converse ratio is when the antecedent is compared to the excesse wherein the antecedent exceeds the consequent.
1695 W. Alingham Geom. Epitomiz'd 19 Converse Reason or proportion is the comparing the Antecedent to the excess, wherein the Antecedent exceeds the Consequent.
B. n.3
1.
a. gen. A statement or form of words derived from another by the turning about or transposition of two important antithetical members; e.g. ‘the possession of wealth without learning’, ‘the possession of learning without wealth’; ‘a quiet day and a noisy night’, ‘a noisy day and a quiet night’. [This use occurs in Old French in 13th cent.]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > condition of being opposite in meaning > [noun] > form derived from transposition of words
converse1806
1806 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (ed. 3) II. ii. ix. 26 The converse of this will also be true.
1841 R. W. Emerson Compensation in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 98 The theory of the mechanic forces is another example. What we gain in power is lost in time; and the converse.
1855 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea ix. §446 A series of observations the converse of this, viz. winter in the North Atlantic, summer in the South.
1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism ii. 278 ‘All wickedness is weakness’. The converse he seems to have believed.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 20 The thesis..is the converse of that of Thrasymachus..not right is the interest of the stronger, but right is the necessity of the weaker.
b. A thing or action which is the exact opposite of another. [Occurs in Old French in 14th cent.]
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > the opposite of something
contraryc1386
reversec1405
the contraverse1480
nothing less?1520
contrariety1532
negative1532
oppositive1561
different1571
diameter1579
contrariwise1588
opposition1594
counterpoint1599
oppositea1616
other thing1628
antipodes1641
inverse1645
contra1648
contrast1754
converse1786
contrariant1848
antipole1856
obverse1862
antithetic1863
contradictory1874
antipathy-
1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα i. 29 They travelled backwards..adopting the converse of the principle.
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxi. 401 By evaporation water is carried up into the air; by the converse of evaporation it falls down upon the earth.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. ii. 41 She was the very converse of our old ship, she never missed stays, although I did cruelly.
a1852 D. Webster Wks. (1877) III. 453 The natural converse of accession is secession; and therefore when it is stated that the people of the States acceded to the Union, it may be more plausibly argued that they may secede from it.
1869 Sci. Opinion 10 Feb. 270/2 This contraction of the wire is in length only. The result is the converse of extension by wire-drawing.
1879 W. H. Mallock Is Life Worth Living? 135 The positions of the two moralists are in fact the exact converses of each other.
2. Mathematics. (One proposition is the converse of another, when the datum and conclusion of the one are respectively taken as the conclusion and datum of the other.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical enquiry > proposition > in relation to another
corollaryc1374
converse1570
lemma1570
dual1910
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. i. f. 16 The 8. proposition being the conuerse of the fourth.
1660 tr. I. Barrow Euclide's Elements i. 7 Things which agree together, are equall one to the other. The converse of this axiome is true in right lines and angles, but not in figures, unlesse they be like.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §27. 53 The Converses of these are evident.
1893 N.E.D. at Converse Mod. This proposition is the converse of the preceding.
3. Logic. A converted proposition: formerly applied to the original proposition upon which conversion is performed (called by Hamilton the convertend n.), but now usually to that which results from converting the original.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > conversion of a proposition > [noun] > converted proposition
converse1827
1827 R. Whately Elem. Logic ii. ii. §4 Conversion can then only be illative when no term is distributed in the Converse, which was not distributed in the Exposita.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. App. 256 The original or given proposition is called the Converse, or Converted..It would be better to call [it] the Convertend..This language I shall use.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. App. 257 The Quantity of the Proposition in Conversion remains always the same; that is, the absolute quantity of the Converse must be exactly equal to that of the Convertend.
1884 W. S. Jevons Stud. Deduct. Logic 32 It must be observed that the converse, obverse, and contrapositive are all true if the original proposition is true.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

conversev.

Brit. /ˈkɒnvəːs/, /kənˈvəːs/, U.S. /ˈkɑnˌvərs/, /kənˈvərs/
Etymology: < French converser (12th cent. in Littré) to pass one's life, live, dwell in or with, in modern French also to exchange words with; = Provençal conversar, Spanish conversar, Italian and late Latin conversare < Latin conversārī lit. to turn oneself about, to move to and fro, pass one's life, dwell, abide, live somewhere, keep company with; middle voice of rare conversāre to turn to and fro, frequentative of convertĕre to turn about. As with other deponent verbs the active form was in late Latin substituted for the middle, whence the Romanic forms. The transference of sense from ‘live with’ to ‘talk with’ is recent in French and English, and most complete in the latter.
†1. intransitive. To move about, have one's being, live, dwell in (on, upon) a place, among (with) people, etc. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > among or in
walkc1225
converse1340
1340 [implied in: R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4198 He [Anticrist] sal be lered..And nurist and mast conversand In þe cite of Bethsayda. (at conversant adj. 1)].
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. iii. 10 In whos houses I hadde conuersed and haunted fro my ȝouþe.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton B v Before them emonge the whyche we conuerse and go dayly.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 405/4 How many yere arte thou olde and where conuersest thou.
1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New World & Another Planet (new ed.) i.xiv. 207 Birds..which doe most converse upon the earth..as a Pheasant, Partridge, &c.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. ix. sig. Dd8 Impurities..contracted, by Conversing to and fro in a defiling World.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 10 Cetaceous Fishes, which converse chiefly in the Northern Seas.
1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) ii. 376 Birds have been taught to..pronounce Words,..yet Quadrupeds never; though..Dogs and Horses, converse almost perpetually with Men.
1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions Introd. 3 It converses here, is with us, and among us.
†2.
a. To associate familiarly, consort, keep company; to hold intercourse, be familiar with. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)]
mingc1275
company1387
joinc1390
meddlec1390
herd?a1400
fellowshipc1430
enfellowship1470
to step in1474
accompany?1490
yoke?a1513
to keep with ——c1515
conjoin1532
wag1550
frequent1577
encroach1579
consort1588
sort1595
commerce1596
troop1597
converse1598
to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598
to enter common1604
atone1611
to walk (also travel) in the way with1611
minglea1616
consociate1638
associate1644
corrive1647
co-unite1650
walk1650
cohere1651
engage1657
mix1667
accustom1670
to make one1711
coalite1735
commerciate1740
to have nothing to say to (also with)1780
gang?1791
companion1792
mess1795
matea1832
comrade1865
to go around1904
to throw in with1906
to get down1975
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > hold familiar intercourse
converse1598
bosom1633
hob or nob1756
hob-nob1828
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 837 You shall..Visite the speachlesse sicke, and still conuerse, With groning wretches. View more context for this quotation
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. ii. sig. Xxxx So rude a Country, as hath not hitherto conversed with more civil Nations.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 184 For ever sunk Under yon boyling Ocean, wrapt in Chains; There to converse with everlasting groans. View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 131 Too blessed a creature to converse with mortals.
1781 S. Johnson Congreve in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets VI. 23 Having long conversed familiarly with the great, he wished to be considered..as a man of fashion.
1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations I. vi. 322 The old pagans believed, that a mighty god..openly conversed with mortals.
†b. To hold sexual intercourse. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Bj Yis Albyne with hir .l. systeris..conuersit with deuillis in forme of men. And consauit childrin.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Rifflarde
1656 S. Winter Serm. 45 They may lawfully converse together as man and wife.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 19 Sept. 2/1 How long a time a Woman might be allowed to pray to the Gods, after having conversed with a Man.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. x. 297 That Wench with whom I know he yet converses . View more context for this quotation
1765 C. Johnstone Chrysal III. ii. ii. 148 Liberty..to converse with as many females as he pleased.
†c. To have commercial intercourse, to deal, trade, traffic. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > [verb (intransitive)]
cheapc1000
chaffer1340
to make (a) market1340
merchandisec1384
merchantc1400
occupy1525
traffic1537
trade1557
to make a (also one's) mart1562
commerce1587
converse1598
negotiate1601
mart1602
intertraffic1603
nundinate1623
deala1627
market1636
correspond1682
to make (out) one's market1714
1598 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 159 They may friendly conuerse & exercise mutual traffick together.
1613 A. Sherley Relation Trav. Persia 9 The Turke hauing giuen certaine scales to trade in, out of which..it was vnlawfull for any to converse.
1690 J. Child Disc. Trade v. 111. This Law will not at all Incommode Gentlemen as to what they Buy in Shops,..neither those that converse in Fairs and Markets.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 201 These..Indians had Canoes..by which perhaps, they convers'd with the Islands..near them.
†3. To be engaged in; to have to do with (a thing); to deal with, be familiar or conversant with. Obsolete except as figurative of 4 or 5, in to converse with books.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > have to do with or be involved in or with
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)lOE
meddle1413
intromit1522
fretc1540
make1564
to have a finger in1583
converse1592
cope with1594
trade1595
play1928
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. O2v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) You that conuerse in these & such like actions.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H3 O world thou art too subtile, For honest natures to conuerse withall.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 156 When they converse in those things they doe not affect.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ i. v. §5 Since he hath conversed more with the Orientall traditions.
1692 R. South 12 Serm. I. 618 Wheresoever he treads, he sinks, and converses with a Bottomless Pit.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxxi. 354 That ministers should converse in this catechism, and learn true divinity from it.
1719 J. Richardson Sci. Connoisseur 204 By conversing with the Works of the Best Masters.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. viii. 172 He had indeed conversed so entirely with Money. View more context for this quotation
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 409 A man..who has conversed, not only with books, but with lawyers and merchants..statesmen and princes.
†4.
a. To communicate or interchange ideas (with any one) by speech or writing or otherwise. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > information > action of informing > give information [verb (intransitive)] > exchange information (with anyone)
conversea1616
society > communication > information > action of informing > give (information) [verb (transitive)] > convey as information
conveyc1386
importc1475
conversea1616
convoy1641
articulate1861
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 163 Ant. Did you conuerse sir with this gentlewoman?.. S. Dro. I neuer spake with her in all my life.
1650 E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 177 [As] I have att noe tyme soe much ease and content as when I converse with you, I hope I shall gaine pardon for this tedious letter.
1712 A. Pope Corr. 28 May (1956) I. 143 It is not only the disposition I always have of conversing with you, that makes me so speedily answer your obliging lines.
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. vi. 153 Like Ships at Sea, they must converse by Signals.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. iii. 80 He conversed little with the painters..except Velasquez, with whom he continued a correspondence of letters.
b. To hold inward communion, commune with.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)] > mentally or spiritually
conversea1616
commune1671
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. i. 25 Well, let them practise and conuerse with spirits. View more context for this quotation
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) ix. ii. 387 He knows how to converse with himself, and truly to love and value himself.
1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus iv. 66 Before he eats, converses with himself, while he is eating converses with God, and after he hath eaten, converses with the holy angels.
1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy (R.) Remote from man, conversing with the spheres.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 233 So you..have time to converse with your sensations.
5. spec. ‘To convey the thoughts reciprocally in talk’ (Johnson); to engage in conversation, to talk with (a person), on, upon (a subject), in (a language, voice). The ordinary current sense.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)]
yedc888
speak971
rounda1200
talka1225
tevela1225
intercommunec1374
fable1382
parlec1400
reason?c1425
communique?1473
devise1477
cutc1525
wade1527
enterparle1536
discourse1550
to hold one chat, with chat, in chat1573
parley1576
purpose1590
dialogue1595
commerce1596
dialoguize1596
communicate1598
propose1600
dialogize1601
converse1615
tella1616
interlocute1621
interparle1791
conversate1811
colloquize1823
conversationize1826
colloque1850
visit1862
colloquy1868
to make conversation1921
1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 249 If..you desire to converse with him, you must tarry till he be awake.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 32 I have conversed with those which have conversed with him. View more context for this quotation
1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. i. 7 After Adam, his Posterity learnt to speak immediately from him, and so to converse with one another.
1745 J. Wesley Answer to Rev. Church 7 My Heart clave to him as soon as he spoke. And the more we convers'd, so much the more did I esteem..him.
1799 R. Southey Old Man's Comforts in Lyric Poems You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death.
1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland 41 We had been conversing with Lady Margaret on indifferent subjects.
1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. 136 Wishing to converse..in a language unknown to the Spaniards.
1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxii. 131 Talk for you is good discipline. You converse imperfectly.
6. transitive.
†a. To keep company with. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
drawc1275
mella1300
meeta1325
fellow1340
usec1384
conjoinc1386
joinc1390
knitc1400
accompany1461
enfellowship1470
frequent1477
haunt1477
mixa1513
encompanya1533
combinea1535
contract1548
to take with ——1562
associate1581
to have a saying toa1593
cope1594
sort1594
to take in1597
consort1600
herd1606
factionate1611
to keep company (with)a1616
accost1633
solder1641
converse1649
walk1650
consociate1653
coalite1734
to get with ——a1772
forgather1786
unionize1810
to go rounda1867
to mix in1870
cop1940
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Exhort. §9 Such a life without which human society cannot be conversed.
1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity 84 Not conversing him daily or very often.
1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse Pref. Whether we Converse our Superiours, Inferiours, or Equals.
b. To render familiar or well acquainted.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > know, be conversant with [verb (transitive)] > render familiar
familiarizea1639
intimate1642
converse1704
1704 J. Swift Full Acct. Battel between Bks. in Tale of Tub 242 This Temple having been educated and long conversed among the Antients.
c. To communicate with, talk with. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse with [verb (transitive)]
to speak to ——c825
speakc950
to speak with ——971
to speak unto ——c1386
entertain1553
to stand with ——1564
wissel1571
discourse1677
dialogue1681
converse1718
1718 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 354 After I have conversed himself, and read his theses.
d. To talk (any one) out of, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > talk (a person) out of
converse1824
the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > persuade by talking
talk1706
palaver1767
converse1824
statement1931
1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance II. xxxv. 388 She called her daughter to her, and contrived to converse her out of the room.
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