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dispute; debate; discussion; agitation of contrary opinions. This left no room for controversy about the title. Locke. A dispute is commonly oral, and a controversy in writing. Johnson.

Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper.

The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.

In a conversable manner.

The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy. [R.]

Conversance [R.]

nt or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden.

In a familiar manner.

General course of conduct; behavior. [Archaic] Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27.

Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray.

A conversationist.

Acquainted with manners and deportment; behaved. [Obs.] Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl.

A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.

One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron.

with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative. She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative qualities of youth. Sir H. Wotton.

A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects. Gray. These conversazioni [at Florence] resemble our card assemblies. A. Drummond.

te intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. To seek the distant hills, and there converse With nature. Thomson. Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions. Sir W. Scott. But to converse with heaven -This is not easy. Wordsworth.

In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill.

One who engages in conversation.

Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond.