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Nave Topical Bible
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Thompson Chain Reference
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The Topic Concordance
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Torrey Topical Textbook
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American Tract Society
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Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
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Charles Buck Dictionary
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CARM Theological Dictionary
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
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• Conversion: a Radical Change
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Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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People's Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Webster Dictionary
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
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Girdleston's OT Synonyms
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• ἀναστρέφω
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• דָּבָר

CONVERSE, L., to be turned. Literally, to be turned to or with to be turned about.

1. To keep company to associate to cohabit to hold intercourse and be intimately acquainted followed by with.

For him who lonely loves to seek the distant hills, and their converse with nature.

2. To have sexual commerce.

3. To talk familiarly to have free intercourse in mutual communication of thoughts and opinions to convey thoughts reciprocally followed by with before the person addressed, and on before the subject. Converse as friend with friend. We have often conversed with each other on the merit of Miltons poetry. This is now the most general use of the word.

CONVERSE, n.

1. Conversation familiar discourse or talk free interchange of thoughts or opinions.

Formed by thy converse happily to steer from grave to gay, from lively to severe.

2. Acquaintance by frequent or customary intercourse cohabitation familiarity. In this sense, the word may include discourse, or not as, to hold converse with persons of different sects or to hold converse with terrestrial things.

3. In mathematics, an opposite proposition thus, after drawing a conclusion from something supposed, we invert the order, making the conclusion the supposition or premises, and draw from it what was first supposed. Thus, if two sides of a triangle are equal, the angles opposite the sides are equal: and the converse is true if these angles are equal, the two sides are equal.