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

In a familiar manner.

Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar.

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

One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.

To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with; to comprehend.

the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it. -- To feel at home, to be at one's ease. -- To make one's self at home, to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home.

entire indifference to all that occurs. Indifference can not but be criminal, when it is conversant about objects which are so far from being of an indifferent nature, that they are highest importance. Addison.

, fear, thought, study, etc. Object is a term for that about which the knowing subject is conversant; what the schoolmen have styled the "materia circa quam." Sir. W. Hamilton. The object of their bitterest hatred. Macaulay.

Conversant; familiar. [Obs.] Bacon.

as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul. Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self. Sir W. Hamilton.

ter; out of the view of the audience, but in sight of the actors, machinery, etc.; hence, conversant with the hidden motives and agencies of what appears to public view.

to the latter. Opposed to landman, or landsman. Able seaman, a sailor who is practically conversant with all the duties of common seamanship. -- ordinary seaman. See Ordinary.

Familiar; conversant. [R.] Men not versant with courts of justice. Sydney Smith.

One who is conversant with, or who favors adoption of, Volapük.

Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they are conversant." Hooker.