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In some senses, conversible is marked as archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
conversible
adj 3
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3ADJ.
charming, easy, infinite, witty, young
CONVERSIBLE + NOUN
man, thing
PREP.
with
Definitions
adj
1
Capable of being converted.
a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96, [It is] from the not exercising of faith actually, that I ever sin; and every man in the same degree, that he is a sinner, so far is he an unbeliever. So that this conversible retrogradous Sorites may shut up all.
“But what do you call right? What’s your canon of certainty there?” “The conscience that’s in us—that charming, conversible, infinite thing, the intensest thing we know. […]”
2
Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).
Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.
[These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —
adj
1
Alternative form of conversable.
Phillips is [...] a witty, conversible young man, easy to like.
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a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96, [It is] from the not exercising of faith actually, that I ever sin; and every man in the same
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“But what do you call right? What’s your canon of certainty there?” “The conscience that’s in us—that charming, conversible, infinite thing, the intensest thing we know. […]”
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Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.
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Phillips is [...] a witty, conversible young man, easy to like.
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