obversant
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin obversans, present participle of obversari (“to hover before”), from ob (see ob-) + versare (“to move about”).
Adjective
editobversant (comparative more obversant, superlative most obversant)
- (obsolete) conversant; familiar
- c. 1600-1620, Francis Bacon, Letter and Discourse to Sir Henry Savill
- And the third is example, which transformeth the will of man into the similitude of that which is most obversant and familiar towards it.
- c. 1600-1620, Francis Bacon, Letter and Discourse to Sir Henry Savill
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “obversant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)