conversible

comparative more conversible · superlative most conversible

1. archaicCapable of being converted.

   “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. […]”

   1889–1890, Henry James, chapter IX, in The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC

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   a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96, [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.

   Synonyms: convertible

2. obsoleteCapable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).

   [These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —

   1690, Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, London: Thomas Bennet, page 55

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   Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.

   1683, William Duncombe, Forgetfulness of God the Great Plague of Man’s Heart, London: Thomas Simmons, page 78

   Synonyms: interchangeable

comparative more conversible · superlative most conversible

1. alternativeAlternative form of conversable.

   Phillips is [...] a witty, conversible young man, easy to like.

   2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 433