Conversely to Convicinity
Conversely
(Con"verse*ly) adv. In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally. J.
S. Mill.
Converser
(Con*vers"er) n. One who engages in conversation.
Conversible
(Con*ver"si*ble) a. Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond.
Conversion
(Con*ver"sion) n. [L. conversio: cf. F. conversion. See Convert.]
1. The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Artificial conversion of water into ice.
Bacon.
The conversion of the aliment into fat.
Arbuthnot.
2. The act of changing one's views or course, as in passing from one side, party, or from of religion to
another; also, the state of being so changed. "Conversion to Christianity." Prescott.
3. (Law) An appropriation of, and dealing with the property of another as if it were one's own, without
right; as, the conversion of a horse.
Or bring my action of conversion
And trover for my goods.
Hudibras.
4. (Logic) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of
the predicate, or the contrary.
5. (Math.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the
conversion of proportions.
6. (Mil.) (a) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank. (b) A change of character
or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.
7. (Theol.) A spiritual and moral change attending a change of belief with conviction; a change of heart; a
change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul,
involving a transformation of the outward life.
He oft
Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached
Conversion and repentance, as to souls
In
prison under judgments imminent.
Milton.
Conversive
(Con*ver"sive) a.
1. Capable of being converted or changed.
2. Ready to converse; social. [Archaic] Feltham.
Convert
(Con*vert") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Converted; p. pr. & vb. n. Converting.] [L. convertere, -
versum; con- + vertere to turn: cf. F. convertir. See Verse.]
1. To cause to turn; to turn. [Obs.]
O, which way shall I first convert myself?
B. Jonson.
