conversible

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Etymology 1

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Adjective

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conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)

  1. (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,[1]
      [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.
    • 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. []
  2. (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[2], 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[3], London: Thomas Bennet, page 55:
      [These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —

Etymology 2

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From converse +‎ -ible.

Adjective

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conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)

  1. Alternative form of conversable