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verb
To talk; to engage in conversation.
Companions[…] That do converse and waste the time together.
We had conversed so often on that subject.
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune.
To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature.
But to converse with heaven — This is not easy.
To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.
according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety
noun
Free verbal interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
Twice ere the sun descends, with zeal inspir'd, / From the vain converse of the world retir'd, / She reads the psalms and chapters for the day […]
[R]eturn to thy maſter, and tell him, e'er vve liquidate our differences by the ſvvord, Manfred vvould hold ſome converſe vvith him.
adj
Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
a converse proposition