conversation (kon vers ash on)

[ converse Noo... persoun shalbe admitted unto this Gilde but if a bee founde of goode name and fame, of good conuersa con, and honeste in his demeanour, and of goode rule. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 190. Be ye holy in all manner of conversation . 1 Pet. i. 15. The hunters and hawkers among the clergy [were] recalled to graver conversation . R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., ii. 2. Familiar intercourse; intimate acquaintance or a ociation; commerce in social life. [Obsolescent.] It has been my study still to please those women That fell within my conversation . Shirley, Hyde Park, ii. 3. Conversation, when they come into the world, soon gives them a becoming a urance. Locke, Education. 3t. Familiar acquaintance from using or studying. IMG:content-1221.png:[blocks in formation] Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us - a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Emerson , Misc., p. 340. 5. A meeting for conversation, especially on literary subjects; a conversazione. Lady Pomfret has a charming conversation once a week. Walpole , Letters (1740), I. 71. 6. Sexual intercourse: as, criminal conversation (which see, under criminal ). - Conversation-tube, a tube for enabling conversation to be carried on easily with deaf people; an ear-trumpet. See speaking - tube. conversational (kon-vér-sā'shon-al), a. [ Richardson's novels deserve special mention, as being a rich store of the conversational dialect of their author's age. F. Hall , Mod. Eng., p. 320.