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<hw>Con*ver"sive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Capable of being converted or changed.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Ready to converse; social.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Feltham.</i>

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<hw>Con*vert"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Converted</er>; <tt>p.pr. & vb.n.</tt> <er>Converting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>convertere</ets>, <ets>-versum</ets>; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>vertere</ets> to turn: cf. F. <ets>convertir</ets>. See <er>Verse</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cause to turn; to turn.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>O, which way shall I first <b>convert</b> myself? <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; <as>as, to <ex>convert</ex> water into ice</as>.</def>

<blockquote>If the whole atmosphere were <b>converted</b> into water. <i>T. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>That still lessens The sorrow, and <b>converts</b> it nigh to joy. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.</def>

<blockquote>No attempt was made to <b>convert</b> the Moslems. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.</def>

<blockquote>He which <b>converteth</b> the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death. <i>Lames v. 20.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.</def>

<blockquote>When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and <b>converted</b> it, [it was] held no larceny. <i>Cooley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To exchange for some specified equivalent; <as>as, to <ex>convert</ex> goods into money</as>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Logic)</fld> <def>To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To turn into another language; to translate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly <b>converted</b>. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Converted guns</col>, <cd>cast-iron guns lined with wrought-iron or steel tubes.</cd> <i>Farrow.</i> -- <col>Converting furnace</col> <fld>(Steel Manuf.)</fld>, <cd>a furnace in which wrought iron is converted into steel by cementation.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To change; turn; transmute; appropriate.</syn>

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<hw>Con*vert"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.</def>

<blockquote>If Nebo had had the preaching that thou hast, they [the Neboites] would have <b>converted</b>. <i>Latimer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A red dust which <b>converth</b> into worms. <i>Sandys.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The public hope And eye to thee <b>converting</b>. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

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