conversible

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)

1. (archaic) Capable of being converted.

   Synonym: convertible

   • a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96,^[1]

     [It is] from the not exercising of faith actually, that I ever sin; and every man in the same degree, that he is a sinner, so far is he an unbeliever. So that this conversible retrogradous Sorites may shut up all.

   • 1890, Henry James, chapter 9, in The Tragic Muse:

     “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. […] ”

2. (obsolete) Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).

   Synonym: interchangeable

   • 1683, William Duncombe, Forgetfulness of God the Great Plague of Man’s Heart‎^[2], London: Thomas Simmons, page 78:

     Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.

   • 1690, Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed‎^[3], London: Thomas Bennet, page 55:

     [These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —

Etymology 2

From converse +‎ -ible.

Adjective

conversible (comparative more conversible, superlative most conversible)

1. Alternative form of conversable
   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 433:

     Phillips is [...] a witty, conversible young man, easy to like.