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sual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses. By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded . . . as an incidental business. Rogers.

Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive. The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation. C. Buchanan. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ti…

Not sociable or companionable; disinclined to social intercourse or conversation; unsociable; taciturn. This austere insociable life. Shak.

illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices. The penury of insular conversation. Johnson.

Interchange of speech; dialogue; conversation; conference.

One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner. Jer. Taylor.

Consisting of, or having the nature of, dialogue; conversational. Interlocutory discourses in the Holy Scriptures. Fiddes.

To introduce or inject between the parts of a conversation or argument. Milton.

of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children. Locke.

e; pertaining to learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary history; literary conversation. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. Johnson.

A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope.

ntermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument. Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ. Hooker. You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. Coleridge. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. Sir W. Hamilton.…

Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensa conversation.

preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.

One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company. De Quincey.

The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation. It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.

Dull; heavy; spiritless. "That he may not grow musty and unfit for conversation." Addison.

e to an end. Hence, to regulate; to dispose; to direct; to rule. To him that ordereth his conversation aright. Ps. 1. 23. Warriors old with ordered spear and shield. Milton.

Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison.