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English
Etymology 1
Adjective
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,
- 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, 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, London: Thomas Bennet, page 55:[These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —
Etymology 2
From converse + -ible.
Adjective
conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)
- Alternative form of conversable