converse

UK /kənˈvɜːs/ US /kənˈvɜːs/
noun 5verb 3name 2adj 1

Definitions

verb

1

To talk; to engage in conversation.

Companions[…] That do converse and waste the time together.

We had conversed so often on that subject.

2

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.

3

To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.

according as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety

noun

1

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

1

Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.

a converse proposition

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