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

e 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.

ate 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.

condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change. Artificial conversion of water into ice. Bacon. The conversion of the aliment into fat. Arbuthnot.

Ready to converse; social. [Archaic] Feltham.

The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

A region of country having covers; a hunting country.

One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.

Different in kind or species; diverse. [Obs.] Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9.

fferent; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate. The word . . . is used in a sense very diverse from its original import. J. Edwards. Our roads are diverse: farewell, love! said she. R. Browning.

In different ways; differently; variously. "Diversely interpreted." Bacon. How diversely love doth his pageants play. Spenser.

The quality of being diverse.

The quality or capacity of being diversifiable. Earle.

Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.

State of diversity or variation; variegation; modification; change; alternation. Infinite diversifications of tints may be produced. Adventurer.

Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.