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Definition of Conversancy
1. Noun. Personal knowledge or information about someone or something.
Generic synonyms: Information
Derivative terms: Acquaint, Conversant, Conversant, Familiar, Familiar
Definition of Conversancy
1. n. Conversance
Definition of Conversancy
1. Noun. The condition of being conversant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conversancy
1. [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conversancy
Literary usage of Conversancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"... and so little is certain about his life, that even the Mussulmans claim him
as one of their persuasion. But his (84 great conversancy with the Hindu ..."
2. Miscellaneous Essays Relating to Indian Subjects by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1880)
"WE, who have leisure and ease, and minds highly trained, and practical conversancy
with divers tongues, can, therefore, readily master the languages of ..."
3. Notes from Life in Six Essays by Henry Taylor (1849)
"... after compression than in those which are the predetermined occupation of the
day. Next to conversancy with life and affairs, a poet should cultivate a ..."
4. A Dictionary of Sanscrit and English, Designed for the Use of Private by William Yates (1846)
"conversancy with the Vedas ; the ear. ^"Rs: interj. Exclamation on offering by
fire to gods or manes, fà?) 1. n. The lotus. L d. To go. [) a. ..."
5. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies (1828)
"... and, at the public examination held in January last, considerable conversancy
was exhibited with dramatic writings, which bare for a long period been ..."
6. Preeminence of the Vernaculars: Or The Anglicists Answered : Being Four by Brian Houghton Hodgson (1847)
"WE, who have leisure and ease, and minds highly trained, and practical conversancy
with divers tongues, can, therefore, readily master the languages of ..."
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