Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Conversant; familiar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Conversant; familiar.
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- adjective obsolete
conversant ;familiar
Etymologies
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Latin obversans, p.pr. of obversari to hover before; ob (see ob-) + versare to move about.
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Examples
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Is not this volume always obversant before your eyes — every thing showing and declaring this glorious Maker?
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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