Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being converted or changed; convertible.
- Conversable; social.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being converted or changed.
- adjective Archaic Ready to converse; social.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
converted orchanged . - adjective archaic Ready to
converse ;social .
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Examples
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Back in his playing days Baggio was more conversive.
Planet Sport: Roberto Baggio returns ponytail for Italian federation 2010
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And you had a chance to talk to her and got a sense of whether she really was fully conversive in constitutional law, which is not the kind of thing you sort of cram for.
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Periods of time when most Americans are not -- that most Americans aren't too conversive with.
Remarks At Dnc Dinner In New York ITY National Archives 2000
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Periods of time when most Americans are not -- that most Americans aren't too conversive with.
Remarks At Dnc Dinner ITY National Archives 2000
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As his wife, she notices his avoidance of church and seeks Basil's conversive help; discovering the truth, the saint prescribes effective penance and after some effort routs the devil and his minions.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968
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Alike in its single words (e.g., preference for abstract nouns ending in _ûth_) its syntax (e.g., the almost entire absence of waw conversive) and its general linguistic character, the book illustrates the latest development of the Hebrew language.
Introduction to the Old Testament John Edgar McFadyen
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We believe nittenah fits better into the connection if it be construed as Niphal perfect with waw conversive, rather than as a Kal imperfect, first person plural; for
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Here the verb with waw conversive follows a mere adverbial expression, which in sense, however, is the equivalent of an adverbial clause (K.S. 366 1).
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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This verse begins with a participle and continues with waw conversive with the finite verb (K.S. 412n).
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Wanniphtechah (v. 21) is one of those rarer forms where an imperfect with waw conversive has an "ah hortative" (yaktul gravatum, K.S. 200), which ending has completely lost its force.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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