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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

... other thought and consciousness, flowing sweetly and evenly through our business plans, our social converse our heart's affections, our manual toil, our entire life, blending with all, consecrating all, and conscious through all, like the fragrance of a flower, or the presence of a friend consciously near, and yet not hindering in the least the most intense and constant ...

— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson

... her, the rest of the party riding on, and asked where his master was, saying that she wished to talk with him. And here I must say, if I have not said it before, that Suzanne could speak English, though not well. The Hollander tutor had instructed her in that tongue, in which Ralph also would converse with her at times when he did not wish others to understand what they were saying, for he never forgot his mother language, though he mixed many Dutch ...

— Swallow • H. Rider Haggard

... converse with Thomas, and holding up his dry, hooked forefinger, with its long, dirty nail, in ...

— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories • Leonid Andreyev

... although I cannot as yet conceive a means of realizing it. The only condition which I can regulate is the dimensions of the home. When the rooms are small, the males abound and the females tend to disappear. With generous quarters, the converse would not take place. I should obtain females and afterwards an equal number of males, confined in small cells which, in case of need, would be bounded by numerous partitions. The factor of space does not enter into the question here. What ...

— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... from the converse of the very feeling which has an effect so beneficial on that of the Swiss. The migratory habits of the country prevent the formation of the intensity of interest, to which the long residence of a family in a particular spot ...

— A Residence in France - With An Excursion Up The Rhine, And A Second Visit To Switzerland • J. Fenimore Cooper

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