conversible
Capable of being converted.
Adjective archaic
- Capable of being converted.
- 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...
- “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...
Synonyms: convertible
- Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).
- 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:
- [These] were with me, terms full as conversible as — - 1690, Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, London: Thomas Bennet, page 55:
Synonyms: interchangeable
Forms
Adjective alt of, alternative
- Alternative 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:
Origin
From converse + -ible.