Converse
King James Dictionary [1]
Converse, L., to be turned. Literally, to be turned to or with to be turned about.
1. To keep company to associate to cohabit to hold intercourse and be intimately acquainted followed by with.
For him who lonely loves to seek the distant hills, and their converse with nature.
2. To have sexual commerce. 3. To talk familiarly to have free intercourse in mutual communication of thoughts and opinions to convey thoughts reciprocally followed by with before the person addressed, and on before the subject. Converse as friend with friend. We have often conversed with each other on the merit of Miltons poetry. This is now the most general use of the word.
Converse, n.
1. Conversation familiar discourse or talk free interchange of thoughts or opinions.
Formed by thy converse happily to steer from grave to gay, from lively to severe.
2. Acquaintance by frequent or customary intercourse cohabitation familiarity. In this sense, the word may include discourse, or not as, to hold converse with persons of different sects or to hold converse with terrestrial things. 3. In mathematics, an opposite proposition thus, after drawing a conclusion from something supposed, we invert the order, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, and draw from it what was first supposed. Thus, if two sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal: and the converse is true if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.
(2): (a.) Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.
(3): (v. i.) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; - followed by with.
(4): (v. i.) To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; - followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing.
(5): (v. i.) To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; - said of things.
(6): (n.) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
(7): (n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.
(8): (n.) A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.
