conversible
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)
- (archaic) Capable of being converted.
- Synonym: convertible
- a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96,[1]
- [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 Sorites may shut up all.
- 1890, Henry James, chapter 9, in The Tragic Muse:
- “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. […] ”
- (obsolete) Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).
- Synonym: interchangeable
- 1683, William Duncombe, Forgetfulness of God the Great Plague of Man’s Heart[2], London: Thomas Simmons, page 78:
- Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.
- 1690, Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed[3], London: Thomas Bennet, page 55:
- [These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)
- Alternative form of conversable
- 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 433:
- Phillips is [...] a witty, conversible young man, easy to like.