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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
conversible en · ADJ · etymology 1
Meanings
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(archaic) Capable of being converted.
“But what do you call right? What’s your canon of certainty there?” “The conscience that’s in us—that charming, conversible, infinite thing, the intensest thing we know. […]”
1889–1890, Henry James, chapter IX, in The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96,
[It is] from the not exercising of faith actually, that I ever sin; and every man in the same degree, that he is a sinner, so far is he an unbeliever. So that this conversible retrogradous Sorites may shut up all.
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(obsolete) Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).
Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.
1683, William Duncombe, Forgetfulness of God the Great Plague of Man’s Heart, London: Thomas Simmons, page 78:[These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —
1690, Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, London: Thomas Bennet, page 55:
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Synonyms
convertible · interchangeable
conversible en · ADJ · etymology 2
Etymology
From converse + -ible.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of conversable.
Phillips is [...] a witty, conversible young man, easy to like.
2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 433:
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