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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conversant \Con*vers"ant\, n.
One who converses with another; a convenser. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conversant \Con"ver*sant\, a. [L. conversans, p. pr of
conversari: cf F. conversant.]
1. Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary
associated; intimately acquainted.
I have been conversant with the first persons of the
age. --Dryden.
2. Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed;
versed; -- generally used with with sometimes with in
Deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy.
--Dryden.
he uses the different dialects as one who had been
conversant with them all --Pope.
Conversant only with the ways of men. --Cowper.
3. Concerned; occupied.
Education . . . is conversant about children. --W.
Wotton.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
conversant
adj : (usually followed by `with') well informed about
"conversant with business trends"; "familiar with
trends in education" [syn: {conversant(p)}, {familiar(p)}]
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