conversible
adj1
Archaic Capable of being converted.
- a. 1661, Henry Hammond, Sermon 7 in Sermons Preached by Henry Hammond, London: Robert Pawlet, 1675, p. 96, [It is] from the not exercising of faith actually, that I ever sin; and every man in the same degree, that he is a sinner, so far is he an unbeliever. So that this conversible retrogradous Sorites may shut up all.
- “But what do you call right? What’s your canon of certainty there?” “The conscience that’s in us—that charming, conversible, infinite thing, the intensest thing we know. […]”1889–1890, Henry James, chapter IX, in The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
2
Obsolete Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).
- Reciprocal signs I call those that are conversible with the thing they are the signs of.1683, William Duncombe, Forgetfulness of God the Great Plague of Man’s Heart, London: Thomas Simmons, page 78:
- [These] were with me, terms full as conversible as —1690, Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, London: Thomas Bennet, page 55: