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Conversable
adj
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
- 2 Able to be conversed with. obsolete
"[…] 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,"
- 3 Pertaining to, suited for or exhibiting conversation. obsolete
"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"
Etymology
From converse + -able.
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