Conventionalist

One who adheres to the rules and provisions of a convention. - One who is attached to conventionalism; a formal, punctilions person. Conventionality, n. State of being conventional; well acquainted by frequent a ociation. "Nor conversant with ease and idlene ."-Shaks. -Relating to; concerning:- preceding about . "Discretion considered... as conversant about worldly affairs." Add is on. Conver's ant, n. One who converses. (R.) Con'versantly, adv . In a conversant or intimate Conversation, n. [Fr.; Lat. conversatio, from conversor. See CONVERSE.] Familiar intercourse with; intimate fellowship; commerce; easy intercourse. manner. "Freedom of habitudes, and conversation with the best company." Dryden. -Familiar discourse; interchange of ideas; colloquy; easy talk between two or more persons. The pleasure and advantages to be derived from C. are very manifest. There is much in it to lead the superficial observer to view it as a natural gift; and we find individuals, and even nations, that have peculiar talents for it; but still it is an art, and may be learned like every other art, and from its value and importance it is entitled to much more attention than is usually bestowed upon it. Let a man have read, thought, studied as much as he may, rarely will he reach his po ible advantage as a ready man, unle he has exercised his powers much in C. The ancient philosophers were masters of the art of C., and adopted this mode of communicating instruction to their disciples. Rou eau justly remarks that the tone of good C. is neither dull nor frivolous. It is fluent and natural; sensible, without being pedantic; cheerful, without being boisterous; elegant, without being affected; polite without being insipid; and jocose, without being equivocal. It deals not in di ertations "Form'd by thy converse happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe." Pope. -Acquaintance by frequent or customary intercourse; cohabitation; familiarity. Watts. "A free converse with persons of different sects." ( Logic .) A reciprocal or inverted proposition, in which the supposition and conclusion of a preceding proposition change places; a proposition formed from another by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate. (Math.) In geometry, a proposition is said to be the converse of another, when, after drawing a conclusion from something first proposed, we proceed to suppose what had been before concluded, and to draw from it what had been supposed. Thus, if two sides of a triangle be equal, the angles opposite to those sides are also equal; the converse of the proposition is, that if 2 angles of a triangle be equal, the sides opposite to those angles are also equal. -a. Turned round; opposite or reciprocal; as, a converse proposition. Conversely, adv. With change of order; in a contrary order; reciprocally.