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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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"Converse" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Yes" to everything, and Jack darted away to converse with a nice man he had met in the garage, who had a motor, and was going to Paris almost immediately. If he had not gone yet, perhaps he would ...

— The Motor Maid • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... much in the same set, they frequently saw each other. Lord Robert endeavoured to conquer Lady Mary's resolution by sometimes exciting her jealousy and at others making her the object of his addresses; but she continued steady in her conduct, though with many secret pangs. He began at last to converse with her with greater ease to himself as his passion abated when no longer nourished by hope; and notwithstanding a remainder of pique, he could not forbear treating her with a respect which her conduct deserved; for he plainly saw she had acted ...

— A Description of Millenium Hall • Sarah Scott

... determined attack upon us in order to relieve the garrison at Vicksburg. I knew the garrison would make no formidable effort to relieve itself. The picket lines were so close to each other—where there was space enough between the lines to post pickets—that the men could converse. On the 21st of June I was informed, through this means, that Pemberton was preparing to escape, by crossing to the Louisiana side under cover of night; that he had employed workmen in making boats for that purpose; that the men had been canvassed to ascertain if they would make ...

— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant

... made to him, awaken the memory of pleasures which he felt in society. In fine, says the writer of a voyage to the North, after describing a mute scene of this sort, "We were extremely pleased to converse with men, since in thirteen months we had seen no human creature." [Footnote: Collection ...

— An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition • Adam Ferguson, L.L.D.

... Tarquins' friends, who laid down their lives for their mistaken loyalty and friendship, and for whose devotion no historian has ever been brave enough, or generous enough, to say a word. It has been said that revolution is patriotism when it succeeds, treason when it fails, and in the converse, more than one brave man has died a traitor's death for keeping faith with a fallen king. Successful revolution denied those young royalists the charitable handful of earth and the four words of peace—'sit eis terra levis'—that ...

— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford

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