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CONVERSE, v.i. [L., to be turned. Literally, to be turned to or with; to be turned about.]

1. To keep company; to associate; to cohabit; to hold intercourse and be intimately acquainted; followed by with.

For him who lonely loves to seek the distant hills, and their converse with nature.

2. To have sexual commerce.

3. To talk familiarly; to have free intercourse in mutual communication of thoughts and opinions; to convey thoughts reciprocally; followed by with before the person addressed, and on before the subject. Converse as friend with friend. We have often conversed with each other on the merit of Miltons poetry. [This is now the most general use of the word.]

CONVERSE, n.

1. Conversation; familiar discourse or talk; free interchange of thoughts or opinions.

Formed by thy converse happily to steer from grave to gay, from lively to severe.

2. Acquaintance by frequent or customary intercourse; cohabitation; familiarity. In this sense, the word may include discourse, or not; as, to hold converse with persons of different sects; or to hold converse with terrestrial things.

3. In mathematics, an opposite proposition; thus, after drawing a conclusion from something supposed, we invert the order, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, and draw from it what was first supposed. Thus, if two sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal: and the converse is true; if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.


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CONVERSE, v.i. [L., to be turned. Literally, to be turned to or with; to be turned about.]

1. To keep company; to associate; to cohabit; to hold intercourse and be intimately acquainted; followed by with.

For him who lonely loves to seek the distant hills, and their converse with nature.

2. To have sexual commerce.

3. To talk familiarly; to have free intercourse in mutual communication of thoughts and opinions; to convey thoughts reciprocally; followed by with before the person addressed, and on before the subject. Converse as friend with friend. We have often conversed with each other on the merit of Miltons poetry. [This is now the most general use of the word.]

CONVERSE, n.

1. Conversation; familiar discourse or talk; free interchange of thoughts or opinions.

Formed by thy converse happily to steer from grave to gay, from lively to severe.

2. Acquaintance by frequent or customary intercourse; cohabitation; familiarity. In this sense, the word may include discourse, or not; as, to hold converse with persons of different sects; or to hold converse with terrestrial things.

3. In mathematics, an opposite proposition; thus, after drawing a conclusion from something supposed, we invert the order, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, and draw from it what was first supposed. Thus, if two sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal: and the converse is true; if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.

CON'VERSE, n.

  1. Conversation; familiar discourse or talk; free interchange of thoughts or opinions. Formed by thy converse happily to steer / From grave to gay, from lively to severe. – Pope.
  2. Acquaintance by frequent or customary intercourse; cohabitation; familiarity. In this sense, the word may include discourse, or not; as, to hold converse with persons of different sects; or to hold converse with terrestrial things.
  3. In mathematics, an opposite proposition; thus, after drawing a conclusion from something supposed, we invert the order, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, and draw from it what was first supposed. Thus if two sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true; if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal. – Chambers. Bailey.

CON-VERSE, v.i. [convers'; L. conversor; con and versor, to be turned; Fr. converser; It. conversare; Sp. conversar. Literally, to be turned to or with; to be turned about.]

  1. To keep company; to associate; to cohabit; to hold intercourse and be intimately acquainted; followed by with. … for him who lonely loves / To seek the distant hills, and there converse / With nature. – Thomson.
  2. To have sexual commerce. – Guardian.
  3. To talk familiarly; to have free intercourse in mutual communication of thoughts and opinions; to convey thoughts reciprocally; followed by with before the person addressed, and on before the subject. Converse as friend with friend. We have often conversed with each other on the merit of Milton's poetry. [This is now the most general use of the word.]

Con*verse"
  1. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

    To seek the distant hills, and there converse
    With nature.
    Thomson.

    Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions.
    Sir W. Scott.

    But to converse with heaven -
    This is not easy.
    Wordsworth.

  2. Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.

    Glanvill.

    "T is but to hold
    Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled.
    Byron.

  3. Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.
  4. 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.

    * 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.

  5. 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.
    Shak.

    We had conversed so often on that subject.
    Dryden.

  6. 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.
    Pope.

  7. 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.
  8. To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.

    According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety.
    Locke.

    Syn. -- To associate; commune; discourse; talk; chat.

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Converse

CONVERSE, verb intransitive [Latin , to be turned. Literally, to be turned to or with; to be turned about.]

1. To keep company; to associate; to cohabit; to hold intercourse and be intimately acquainted; followed by with.

For him who lonely loves to seek the distant hills, and their converse with nature.

2. To have sexual commerce.

3. To talk familiarly; to have free intercourse in mutual communication of thoughts and opinions; to convey thoughts reciprocally; followed by with before the person addressed, and on before the subject. converse as friend with friend. We have often conversed with each other on the merit of Miltons poetry. [This is now the most general use of the word.]

CONVERSE, noun

1. Conversation; familiar discourse or talk; free interchange of thoughts or opinions.

Formed by thy converse happily to steer from grave to gay, from lively to severe.

2. Acquaintance by frequent or customary intercourse; cohabitation; familiarity. In this sense, the word may include discourse, or not; as, to hold converse with persons of different sects; or to hold converse with terrestrial things.

3. In mathematics, an opposite proposition; thus, after drawing a conclusion from something supposed, we invert the order, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, and draw from it what was first supposed. Thus, if two sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal: and the converse is true; if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.

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