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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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... ago. But it is also true that a good part of the reduction in the price of oil is due to the abundant production of the petroleum wells, which have furnished us so lavish a supply. The principal charges against this trust, made by those who were conversant with its operations, have never been that it was particularly oppressive to consumers of oil; but that, in the attempt to crush out its competitors, it has not hesitated to use, in ways fair and foul, its enormous strength and ...

— Monopolies and the People • Charles Whiting Baker

... The subjects of the poems are often to me an unerring guide; but on other occasions I can only guess, by finding them in the pages of the same manuscript book that contains poems with the date of whose composition I am fully conversant. In the present arrangement all his poetical translations will be ...

— Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley • Mary W. Shelley

... these days, and was in the habit of seeing Mr Vavasor frequently. Indeed, he had not left London since the memorable occasion on which he had pitched his rival down the tailor's stairs at his lodgings. He had made himself pretty well conversant with George Vavasor's career, and had often shuddered as he thought what might be the fate of any girl who might trust herself to marry ...

— Can You Forgive Her? • Anthony Trollope

... the same as to need no remark), it is admitted on all hands to be derived from one or other of the Semitic languages, the Hebrew or the Arabic. It is customery with the mathematical historians to refer it to the Arabic, they being in general more conversant with it than with the Hebrew. The Arabic being a smaller hand than the Hebrew, a dot was used instead of the circle for marking the "place" at which the hiatus of any "denomination" occurred. If we obtained our cipher from ...

— Notes and Queries 1850.04.06 • Various

... duties of a civil jury. They have surely enough to do in weighing and determining the larger questions of policy, without entering into the minute details necessarily involved in the consideration of railways, roads, bridges, and canals. These should be transferred to parties conversant with such subjects, and responsible to the public for their decisions. Besides this, the direct pecuniary loss to Scotland by the present system of sending witnesses to London—though personally I have no reason to complain—is quite enormous, and demands attention in a national ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 • Various

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