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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

... cheeks. Admiral Bluewater, though perfectly abstemious himself, regarded license with the bottle after dinner, like most men of that age, as a very venial weakness, and he quietly took a seat by the side of Mildred, and began to converse. ...

— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper

... underworld. Hail, thou guardian of the divine door of the city of Beta, thou [god] Neti(?) who dwellest in Amentet, I eat food, and I have life through the air, and the god Atch-ur leadeth me with [him] to the mighty boat of Khepera. I hold converse with the divine mariners at eventide, I enter in, I go forth, and I see the being who is there; I lift him up, and I say that which I have to say unto him, whose throat stinketh [for lack of air]. I have life, and I am delivered, having lain down in death. Hail, thou that bringest offerings ...

— Egyptian Literature

... immortality is the highest good, in so far as it is perfect knowledge—which is, moreover, conceived as being of a rational kind,—that necessarily leads to immortality. We can only find traces of the converse idea, according to which the change into the immortal condition is the prius and the knowledge the posterius. But, where this conception is the prevailing one, moralistic intellectualism is broken through, and we can now point to a specific, supernatural blessing of salvation, produced ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... evening Ito Soda returned to the temple Miyo In, and having found Ruiten, accompanied him to the house of Isahaya Buzen: then the priest, leaving Soda outside, went in to converse with the councillor, and inquire ...

— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

... the Harpeth Valley to the very old and tradition-mossed town of Riverfield, in the high, huge-wheeled, swinging old coach of my Great-grandmother Craddock, sitting pensively alone while father occupied the front seat beside Uncle Cradd, both of them in deep converse about a line in Tom Moore, while Uncle Cradd bumbled the air of "Drink to me only with thine eyes" in a lovely old bass, I should have been softly and pensively weeping at the thought of the devastation ...

— The Golden Bird • Maria Thompson Daviess

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