conversant
English
Alternative forms
- conversaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French conversant, present participle of converser.
Pronunciation
Adjective
conversant (comparative more conversant, superlative most conversant)
- Closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.
- 1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by Andrewe Wise, […], OCLC 846581854, folio 60, verso:
- VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
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- Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
- She is equally conversant with Shakespeare and the laws of physics.
- 1674, [Richard Allestree], “Of Boasting”, in The Government of the Tongue. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Theater, OCLC 1204546880, page 168:
- We ſee in all things how deſuetude do's contract and narrow our faculties, ſo that we may apprehend only thoſe things wherein we are converſant.
- c. 1694, John Dryden, letter to Mr. John Dennis
- deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy
- 1720, Thomas Parnell, corrected by Alexander Pope, "Essay on Homer", published with Pope's translation of the Iliad
- He uses the different dialects […] as one who had been conversant with them all.
- (obsolete) Concerned; occupied.
- 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education
- If any think education, because it is conversant about children, to be but a private and domestick duty, he has been ignorantly bred himself.
- 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education
Translations
familiar
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References
- Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9), volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 5.64, page 169.
Catalan
French
Further reading
- “conversant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
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