conversible

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Mounsey, without being the most communicative, is the most conversible man I know.

From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William

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)

Johnson, in his Dictionary, says that 'conversable is sometimes written conversible, but improperly.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by Boswell, James

By this time He had discovered that his Neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, He was still unable to decide.

From The Monk; a romance by Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)

They were intelligent and conversible, and we decided the future of France over hot wine, until the state of the clock frightened us to rest. 

From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis