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
n. conversation vb. (present participle of converse English)
Usage examples of "conversing".
We found the public room empty, but in one of the private chambers we discovered three men quietly conversing with a young and pretty woman, and enjoying their wine.
When Edge went to spread his bedroll in the open, under the stars, only Phoebe and Magpie Maggie Hag were still awake, sitting together beside the embers of the fire, conversing in murmurs.
This gave me the privilege of visiting at his house every day, and I improved the opportunity of conversing with Angela, for whom my love was daily increasing.
They, with one voice, immediately declared that we had never been seen conversing together, and that no one knew who had put the lamp out.
I had heard her conversing in Lingua Franca with her master, a fine old man, who, like her, felt very weary of the quarantine, and used to come out but seldom, smoking his pipe, and remaining in the yard only a short time.
He gave me the paper which you have read, and the following night I allowed him to come into my room through the window under which he was in the habit of conversing with me.
Memmo was thunderstruck (for a Venetian noble conversing with a foreign ambassador becomes guilty of treason to the state), and ran in hot haste from Ancilla's room, I after him, but on the stair he met the ambassador, who, seeing his distress, burst into a laugh, and passed on.
Since they appeared to be conversing amiably, Edge assumed that the officer had been posted there by "the authorities" to see that the flaming vat posed no menace to public safety.
To Edge she said coquettishly, "I hope you will not mind, Monsieur le Colonel, conversing with a dull Spanish matron, instead of a beauteous young actress.
I started to look for my waiter among the four of them loafing by the kitchen doors in the rear of the restaurant, conversing in a mixture of French and Italian.
Yet I had the feeling that they were conversing with one another, without the need for sounds.
Tunu was at the base of the tree, conversing with a few of his friends.
The books were, "The Key of Solomon the King," "The Zecorben," a "Picatrix," a book of "Instructions on the Planetary Hours," and the necessary incantations for conversing with demons of all sorts.