The Collaborative International Dictionary
Converse \Con*verse"\ (k[o^]n*v[~e]rs"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Conversed; p. pr. & vb. n. Conversing.] [F. converser, L. conversari to associate with; con- + versari to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. of vertere to turn See Convert.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: converse)
Usage examples of "conversed".
They affirmed, that if the Being, who is the same through all eternity, had designed to abolish those sacred rites which had served to distinguish his chosen people, the repeal of them would have been no less clear and solemn than their first promulgation: that, instead of those frequent declarations, which either suppose or assert the perpetuity of the Mosaic religion, it would have been represented as a provisionary scheme intended to last only to the coming of the Messiah, who should instruct mankind in a more perfect mode of faith and of worship: ^15 that the Messiah himself, and his disciples who conversed with him on earth, instead of authorizing by their example the most minute observances of the Mosaic law, ^16 would have published to the world the abolition of those useless and obsolete ceremonies, without suffering Christianity to remain during so many years obscurely confounded among the sects of the Jewish church.
The monarch accepted their petitions, inquired into their grievances, and conversed with them on the most equal terms.
He was a native of Gaza, and had conversed with the confessor Zeno, who, as bishop of Maiuma, lived to the age of a hundred, (l.
Under the reign of Claudius, a freedman, who farmed the customs of the Red Sea, was accidentally driven by the winds upon this strange and undiscovered coast: he conversed six months with the natives.
Those historians lived in the next generation, when party violence was abated, and had conversed with many persons intimately acquainted with the virtues and imperfections of the saint.
From his earliest youth, Aetius, as a soldier and a hostage, had conversed with the Barbarians.
While he resided in their tents as a hostage, or an exile, he had familiarly conversed with Attila himself, the nephew of his benefactor.
Cassiolorus, however, had familiarly conversed with many Gothic warriors, who served in that memorable engagement.
These troops had been long accustomed to reverence the character and authority of Orestes, who affected their manners, conversed with them in their own language, and was intimately connected with their national chieftains, by long habits of familiarity and friendship.
But in the intervals of study, he personally conversed with Pan, Aesculapius, and Minerva, in whose mysteries he was secretly initiated, and whose prostrate statues he adored.
The emperor Maurice conversed with some itinerant harpers from that remote country, and only seems to have mistaken a trade for a nation Theophylact, l.
In the two hundred and seventy-seventh year of the Hegira, and in the neighborhood of Cufa, an Arabian preacher, of the name of Carmath, assumed the lofty and incomprehensible style of the Guide, the Director, the Demonstration, the Word, the Holy Ghost, the Camel, the Herald of the Messiah, who had conversed with him in a human shape, and the representative of Mohammed the son of Ali, of St.
Under the Byzantine standard, the Paulicians were often transported to the Greek provinces of Italy and Sicily: in peace and war, they freely conversed with strangers and natives, and their opinions were silently propagated in Rome, Milan, and the kingdoms beyond the Alps.
He and Edge went in, but Edge merely stood about while Florian conversed in German with the agent.
Nobody was actually leaping about or striking attitudes—everyone in the room ate sedately and conversed quietly—but several obviously were of some theatrical occupation, for their faces were leathery and dyed almost orange from years of wearing stage makeup.