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conversible

conversible adjective: capable of being converted. Also the alternative form of conversable.

Adjective

conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)

  1. (archaic) Capable of being converted.
    • a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96,
      [It is] from the not exercising of faith actually, that I ever sin; and every man in the same degree, that he is a sinner, so far is he an unbeliever. So that this conversible retrogradous...
    • “But what do you call right? What’s your canon of certainty there?” “The conscience that’s in us—that charming, conversible, infinite thing, the intensest thing we know. […]”1889–1890, Henry James, chapter IX, in The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    convertible
  2. (obsolete) Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).
    • Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.1683, William Duncombe, Forgetfulness of God the Great Plague of Man’s Heart, London: Thomas Simmons, page 78
    • [These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —1690, Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, London: Thomas Bennet, page 55
    Synonyms:
    interchangeable

Also used as

conversible is also the alternative form of conversable.

Synonyms of conversible

Forms of conversible

comparativemore conversible
superlativemost conversible

Origin of conversible

From converse + -ible.

Questions about conversible

What does conversible mean?
Conversible means capable of being converted.
What part of speech is conversible?
Conversible is an adjective.

Words near conversible in the dictionary

  1. conversers
  2. converses
  3. conversest
  4. converseth
  5. conversi
  6. conversible
  7. conversing
  8. conversings
  9. conversion
  10. conversion course
  11. conversion courses

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