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adjective

Conversant adj.

Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. "I have been conversant with the first persons of the age."

Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; generally used with with, sometimes with in. "Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy." "he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all." "Conversant only with the ways of men."

Concerned; occupied. "Education... is conversant about children."

noun

Conversant n. One who converses with another; a convenser. (R.)

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... soldiers,—each and all have been the joint doers of a great heroic work, the doing of which has been the regeneration of our era. A whole generation has learned the luxury of thinking heroic thoughts and being conversant with heroic deeds, and I have faith to believe that all this is not to go out in a mere crush of fashionable luxury and folly and frivolous emptiness,—but that our girls are going to merit the high praise ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various

... a mug of punch upon him; then he turned for the door, ordering the dog drivers to follow. But the warmth and promise of rest were too tempting, and they objected strenuously. The Kid was conversant with their French ...

— The Son of the Wolf • Jack London

... witnessed an event which, though disgusting in itself, gives rise to serious reflections. Every thoughtful reader is conversant enough with them; if, therefore, he should find them out of place or trite, apology is needless, as he will pass them ...

— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke

... "Yes—so I gather—I am not very conversant with these things. I confess there's one thing that puzzles me greatly though, Halfpenny. That's the matter of the man who came out of the House of Commons with Jacob that night. You remember that the coachman, Mountain, told us—and said at the inquest ...

— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher

... of themselves: and when he sent and brought his brethren back, and charged them with taking his cup, he said, "Know ye not that a man like me practises divination?" thus assuming the Egyptian of high rank initiated into the Mysteries, and as such conversant ...

— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike

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