conversable

adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Able and inclined to engage in conversation.

It is proper for a Gentleman […] to be Civil, and Conversible in Discourse, to know Men and Manners.

The elegant Part of mankind […] may be divided into the learned and conversible. […] The conversible World join to a sociable Disposition, and a Taste for Pleasure, an Inclination for the easier and more gentle Exercises of the Understanding,

2

Able to be conversed with.

[…] it is not the invisible Devil that I am enquiring after, but an appearing conversible Daemon or Evil Spirit […] assuming human Shape, or at least Voice,

[…] a full-grown horse, or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversible animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old.

3

Pertaining to, suited for or exhibiting conversation.

1619, John Donne, Sermon 71 in LXXX Sermons, London: Richard Royston, 1640, p. 720, […] it were not hard to assigne many examples of men that have stolne a great measure of learning, and yet lived open and conversable lives, and never beene observed […] to have spent many houres in study

1691, John Hartcliffe, A Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues, London: C. Harper, p. 156, Of the Three Conversable VIRTUES […] The Virtues which adorn and recommend a Man in Conversation […]

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