conversible

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He held forth on poetry, painting, politics, and metaphysics, and with a great deal of eloquence; he is more conversible and with a greater flow of animal spirits than Southey.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II by Reeve, Henry

My new acquaintance was exceedingly conversible, but his conversation was chiefly characterized by frankness and good-humour.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

There are no dogs in the hotel where I lodge, but a tolerably conversible cat, who eats a mess of cream with me in the morning.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

His younger brother, Charles, who is now at home, has more easy manners, is more conversible, and has more of his father's literary taste.

From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Hare, Augustus J. C.

An empty man of a great family is a creature that is scarce conversible.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)