conversable

Adjective

conversable (comparative more conversable, superlative most conversable)

1. Able and inclined to engage in conversation.
   • It is proper for a Gentleman […] to be Civil, and Conversible in Discourse, to know Men and Manners.1655, Margaret Cavendish, The Worlds Olio, London: J. Martin and J. Allestrye, Book 2, Part 2, p. 110
   • The elegant Part of mankind […] may be divided into the learned and conversible. […] The conversible World join to a sociable Disposition, and a Taste for Pleasure, an Inclination for the easier and more gentle Exercises of the Understanding,1742, David Hume, “Of Essay-Writing”, in Essays Moral and Political

   Synonyms:

   affable, agreeable, approachable, genial, sociable

2. (obsolete) Able to be conversed with.
   • […] it is not the invisible Devil that I am enquiring after, but an appearing conversible Daemon or Evil Spirit […] assuming human Shape, or at least Voice,1728, Daniel Defoe, chapter 3, in A System of Magick, London: Andrew Millar, page 89
   • […] a full-grown horse, or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversible animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old.1789, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, London: T. Payne and Son, Chapter 17, p. 309, footnote
3. (obsolete) Pertaining to, suited for or exhibiting conversation.
   • […] it were not hard to assigne many examples of men that have stolne a great measure of learning, and yet lived open and conversable lives, and never beene observed […] to have spent many houres in study1619, John Donne, Sermon 71 in LXXX Sermons, London: Richard Royston, 1640, p. 720
   • Of the Three Conversable VIRTUES […] The Virtues which adorn and recommend a Man in Conversation […]1691, John Hartcliffe, A Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues, London: C. Harper, p. 156

   Synonyms:

   conversational