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Noah Webster's Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

2. (v. i.) 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.

3. (v. i.) To have knowledge of, from long intercourse or study; -- said of things.

4. (n.) Frequent intercourse; familiar communion; intimate association.

5. (n.) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.

6. (a.) Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, a converse proposition.

7. (n.) 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.

8. (n.) 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.

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Converse (5 Occurrences)

Acts 24:26 At the same time he hoped that Paul would give him money; and for this reason he sent for him the oftener to converse with him. (WEY NAS RSV)

Job 29:4 As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent; (See JPS)

Psalms 55:14 We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God's house with company. (See RSV)

Psalms 64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them? (See JPS)

Psalms 83:3 Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones. (See JPS)




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