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v. t. To cause to tend to one point; to cause to incline and approach nearer together. [ 1913 Webster ]

I converge its rays to a focus of dazzling brilliancy. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Cf. F. convergence. ] 1. The condition or quality of converging; tendency to one point; the occurrence of two or more things coming together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit.
Syn. -- convergency. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena.
Syn. -- overlap, intersection. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. the act of converging (coming closer).
Syn. -- converging, convergency. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. (Biol.) a similarity of form or function in two or more organisms caused by evolutionary adaptations to a similarity in the environment, rather than to a common heredity. [ PJC ]

The convergence or divergence of the rays falling on the pupil. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. convergent. ] tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging. [ 1913 Webster ]

As many rays of light, as conveniently can be let in, and made convergent. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vast dome of its cathedral . . . directing its convergent curves to heaven. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as, converging lines. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light, which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward a single point. --
Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitely great number of terms be taken, their sum will become indefinitely near in value to a fixed quantity, which is called the sum of the series; -- opposed to a diverging series. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. conversable. ] Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a conversable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity; familiar acquaintance; intimacy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Conversance [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who converses with another; a convenser. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conversans, p. pr. of conversari: cf. F. conversant. ] 1. Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have been conversant with the first persons of the age. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed; -- generally used with with, sometimes with in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

he uses the different dialects as one who had been conversant with them all. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conversant only with the ways of men. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Concerned; occupied. [ 1913 Webster ]

Education . . . is conversant about children. W. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a familiar manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. conversacio (in senses 1 & 2), OF. conversacion, F. conversation, fr. L. conversatio frequent abode in a place, intercourse, LL. also, manner of life. ] 1. General course of conduct; behavior. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel. Philip. i. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association; close acquaintance. “Conversation with the best company.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

I set down, out of long experience in business and much conversation in books, what I thought pertinent to this business. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Commerce; intercourse; traffic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All traffic and mutual conversation. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Colloquial discourse; oral interchange of sentiments and observations; informal dialogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

The influence exercised by his [ Johnson's ] conversation was altogether without a parallel. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Sexual intercourse; as, criminal conversation.

Syn. -- Intercourse; communion; commerce; familiarity; discourse; dialogue; colloquy; talk; chat. -- Conversation, Talk. There is a looser sense of these words, in which they are synonymous; there is a stricter sense, in which they differ. Talk is usually broken, familiar, and versatile. Conversation is more continuous and sustained, and turns ordinarily upon topics or higher interest. Children talk to their parents or to their companions; men converse together in mixed assemblies. Dr. Johnson once remarked, of an evening spent in society, that there had been a great deal of talk, but no conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing; as, a conversational style. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A conversationist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Aaquaintea with m`nners aod deportment; behaved. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Till she be better conversationed, . . . I'll keep
As far from her as the gallows. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloquialism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who converses much, or who excels in conversation. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative. [ 1913 Webster ]

She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative qualities of youth. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Conversazioni /plu>. [ It. See Conversation. ] A meeting or assembly for conversation, particularly on literary or scientific subjects. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

These conversazioni [ at Florence ] resemble our card assemblies. A. Drummond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Conversed p. pr. & vb. n. Conversing. ] [ F. converser, L. conversari to associate with; con- + versari to be turned, to live, remain, fr. versare to turn often, v. intens. of vertere to turn See Convert. ] 1. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

To seek the distant hills, and there converse
With nature. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conversing with the world, we use the world's fashions. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

But to converse with heaven -
This is not easy. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To engage in familiar colloquy; to interchange thoughts and opinions in a free, informal manner; to chat; -- followed by with before a person; by on, about, concerning, etc., before a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Companions
That do converse and waste the time together. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We had conversed so often on that subject. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things. [ 1913 Webster ]

According as the objects they converse with afford greater or less variety. Locke.

Syn. -- To associate; commune; discourse; talk; chat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

'T is but to hold
Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unrolled. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Formed by thy converse happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conversus, p. p. of convertere. See Convert. ] Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Logic) A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It should not (as is often done) be confounded with the contrary or opposite of a proposition, which is formed by introducing the negative not or no. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who engages in conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. conversio: cf. F. conversion. See Convert. ] 1. The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change. [ 1913 Webster ]

Artificial conversion of water into ice. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The conversion of the aliment into fat. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to another; also, the state of being so changed. “Conversion to Christianity.” Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without right; as, the conversion of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or bring my action of conversion
And trover for my goods. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Math.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mil.) (a) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank. (b) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Theol.) A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life. [ 1913 Webster ]

He oft
Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached
Conversion and repentance, as to souls
In prison under judgments imminent. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being converted or changed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ready to converse; social. [ Archaic ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Converted; p. pr. & vb. n. Converting. ] [ L. convertere, -versum; con- + vertere to turn: cf. F. convertir. See Verse. ] 1. To cause to turn; to turn. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O, which way shall I first convert myself? B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the whole atmosphere were converted into water. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

That still lessens
The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

No attempt was made to convert the Moslems. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. Lames v. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. [ 1913 Webster ]

When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [ it was ] held no larceny. Cooley. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To turn into another language; to translate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Converted guns, cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes. Farrow. --
Converting furnace (Steel Manuf.), a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.

Syn. -- To change; turn; transmute; appropriate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally. [ 1913 Webster ]

If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [ the Neboites ] would have converted. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A red dust which converth into worms. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

The public hope
And eye to thee converting. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

Syn. -- Proselyte; neophyte. -- Convert, Proselyte, Pervert. A convert is one who turns from what he believes to have been a decided error of faith or practice. Such a change may relate to religion, politics, or other subjects. properly considered, it is not confined to speculation alone, but affects the whole current of one's feelings and the tenor of his actions. As such a change carries with it the appearance of sincerity, the term convert is usually taken in a good sense. Proselyte is a term of more ambiguous use and application. It was first applied to an adherent of one religious system who had transferred himself externally to some other religious system; and is also applied to one who makes a similar transfer in respect to systems of philosophy or speculation. The term has little or no reference to the state of the heart. Pervert is a term of recent origin, designed to express the contrary of convert, and to stigmatize a person as drawn off perverted from the true faith. It has been more particulary applied by members of the Church of England to those who have joined the Roman Catholic Church. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. spiritually reborn or converted; as, a converted sinner.
Syn. -- born-again, reborn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. convertenus to be converted. ] (Logic) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who converts; one who makes converts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Steel Manuf.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. convertibilis: cf. F. convertible. ] 1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. [ 1913 Webster ]

So long as we are in the regions of nature, miraculous and improbable, miraculous and incredible, may be allowed to remain convertible terms. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being convertible; convertibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a convertible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. convertito, p. p. of convertire to convert. ] A convert. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a device for changing one substance or form or state into another.
Syn. -- converter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Incommunicative; unsocial; reserved. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not turned or changed about. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inconvertibilitas. ] The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconvertibilis: cf. F. inconvertible. See In- not, and Convertible. ] Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inconvertibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an inconvertible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]