f. converse
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| converse1 | |
| —vb (often foll by with) | |
| 1. | to engage in conversation (with) |
| 2. | to commune spiritually (with) |
| 3. | obsolete |
| a. to associate; consort | |
| b. to have sexual intercourse | |
| —n | |
| 4. | conversation (often in the phrase hold converse with) |
| 5. | obsolete |
| a. fellowship or acquaintance | |
| b. sexual intercourse | |
| [C16: from Old French converser, from Latin conversārī to keep company with, from conversāre to turn constantly, from vertere to turn] | |
| con'verser1 | |
| —n | |
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F. converse
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | (prenominal) reversed; opposite; contrary |
| —n | |
| 2. | something that is opposite or contrary |
| 3. | logic |
| a. a categorical proposition obtained from another by the transposition of subject and predicate, as no bad man is bald from no bald man is bad | |
| b. a proposition so derived, possibly by weakening a universal proposition to the corresponding particular, as some socialists are rich from all rich men are socialists | |
| 4. | logic, maths a relation that holds between two relata only when a given relation holds between them in reverse order: thus father of is the converse of son of |
| [C16: from Latin conversus turned around; see | |
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Word Origin & History
converse
"to communicate (with)," 1590s; earlier "to move about" (mid-14c.), from O.Fr. converser (12c.), from L. conversari (see conversation). Related: Conversing.
converse
"exact opposite," 1570, from L. conversus "turn around," pp. of convertere "to turn about" (see convert). Originally mathematical. Related: Conversely (1806).
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