Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 121

Converse (n.) A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for the predicate; as, no virtue is vice, no vice is virtue.

Converse (n.) A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, what was first supposed becoming now the conclusion or inference. Thus, if two sides of a sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal; and the converse is true, i.e., if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.

Conversely (adv.) In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.

Converser (n.) One who engages in conversation.

Conversible (a.) Capable of being converted or reversed.

Conversion (n.) The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.

Conversion (n.) 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 (n.) 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.

Conversion (n.) The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or the contrary.

Conversion (n.) A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition; as, the conversion of equations; the conversion of proportions.

Conversion (n.) A change of front, as a body of troops attacked in the flank.

Conversion (n.) A change of character or use, as of smoothbore guns into rifles.

Conversion (n.) 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.

Conversive (a.) Capable of being converted or changed.

Conversive (a.) Ready to converse; social.

Converted (imp. & p. p.) of Convert

Converting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convert

Convert (v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.

Convert (v. t.) To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.

Convert (v. t.) To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.

Convert (v. t.) To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.

Convert (v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

Convert (v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

Convert (v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

Convert (v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.

Convert (v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

Convert (n.) A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

Convert (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

Convertend (n.) Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the converse. See Converse, n. (Logic).

Converter (n.) One who converts; one who makes converts.

Converter (n.) A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal.

Convertibility (n.) The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness.

Convertible (a.) Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.

Convertible (a.) Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.

Convertibleness (n.) The state of being convertible; convertibility.

Convertibly (adv.) In a convertible manner.

Convertite (n.) A convert.

Convex (a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.

Convex (n.) A convex body or surface.

Convexed (a.) Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.

Convexedly (dv.) In a convex form; convexly.

Convexedness (n.) Convexity.

Convexities (pl. ) of Convexity

Convexity (n.) The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

Convexly (adv.) In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped.

Convexness (n.) The state of being convex; convexity.

Convexo-concave (a.) Convex on one side, and concave on the other. The curves of the convex and concave sides may be alike or may be different. See Meniscus.

Convexo-convex (a.) Convex on both sides; double convex. See under Convex, a.

Convexo-plane (a.) Convex on one side, and flat on the other; plano-convex.

Conveyed (imp. & p. p.) of Convey

Conveying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convey

Convey (v. t.) To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

Convey (v. t.) To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.

Convey (v. t.) To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.

Convey (v. t.) To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.

Convey (v. t.) To manage with privacy; to carry out.

Convey (v. t.) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.

Convey (v. t.) To accompany; to convoy.

Convey (v. i.) To play the thief; to steal.

Conveyable (a.) Capable of being conveyed or transferred.

Conveyance (n.) The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.

Conveyance (n.) The instrument or means of carrying or transporting anything from place to place; the vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water.

Conveyance (n.) The act or process of transferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission.

Conveyance (n.) The act by which the title to property, esp. real estate, is transferred; transfer of ownership; an instrument in writing (as a deed or mortgage), by which the title to property is conveyed from one person to another.

Conveyance (n.) Dishonest management, or artifice.

Conveyancer (n.) One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc.

Conveyancing (n.) The business of a conveyancer; the act or business of drawing deeds, leases, or other writings, for transferring the title to property from one person to another.

Conveyer (n.) One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.

Conveyer (n.) One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief.

Conveyor (n.) A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., -- as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

Conviciate (v. i.) To utter reproaches; to raise a clamor; to rail.

Convicinities (pl. ) of Convicinity

Convicinity (n.) Immediate vicinity; neighborhood.

Convicious (a.) Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting.

Convict (p.a.) Proved or found guilty; convicted.

Convict (n.) A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

Convict (n.) A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.

Convicted (imp. & p. p.) of Convict

Convicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convict

Convict (v. t.) To prove or find guilty of an offense or crime charged; to pronounce guilty, as by legal decision, or by one's conscience.

Convict (v. t.) To prove or show to be false; to confute; to refute.

Convict (v. t.) To demonstrate by proof or evidence; to prove.

Convict (v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction.

Convict1ible (a.) Capable of being convicted.

Conviction (n.) The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.

Conviction (n.) A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.

Conviction (n.) The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.

Conviction (n.) The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.

Convictism (n.) The policy or practice of transporting convicts to penal settlements.

Convictive (a.) Convincing.

Convinced (imp. & p. p.) of Convince

Convincing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Convince

Convince (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to subdue or master.

Convince (v. t.) To overcome by argument; to force to yield assent to truth; to satisfy by proof.

Convince (v. t.) To confute; to prove the fallacy of.

Convince (v. t.) To prove guilty; to convict.

Convincement (n.) Act of convincing, or state of being convinced; conviction.

Convincer (n.) One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.

Convincible (a.) Capable of being convinced or won over.

Convincible (a.) Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable.

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