Conversant

Athens on the 27th day of the 7th month, in the year accounted 1657, being the first day of the week, the day of Greek solemn worship, and to have been "conversant" with Carlo Dessio and Gumeno Stephaci, "called Greek doctors." ❋ Various (1852)

The judge said that he knew the legislation had been changed to meet some of the concerns but that he was not "conversant" with the latest figures regarding prisoners detained beyond their minimum sentence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

India (59 per cent), Australia (58 per cent) and New Zealand (58 per cent) are home to the most "conversant" consumers in the region. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There, individuals who are accustomed to, say, the metric system must also be conversant with the imperial system now embattled even in the kingdom of its formerly eponymous empire, Britain pretty much solely for the purpose of taking the American test. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

The Mondale model helps assure that the constitutional successor is fully conversant with the issues our government faces. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

If you are not conversant in regional humor you can live there for a million years and never be accepted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So I'm not only conversant but experienced in what it takes to create theater, including theater featuring women and girls. ❋ Ellen Snortland (2011)

He was conversant with details of hockey in Russia that very few sportswriters would know, and he also was familiar with the work of my favorite poet, Anna Akhmatova. ❋ Steve Kettmann (2011)

And if you are serious about the future of the construction industry, you will also need to look at how we recruit and retain the industry professionals of tomorrow – many of this Gen Y (and Gen Z) cohort are highly conversant with networking platforms like Facebook, and will be making career choices influenced by such media. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To be economically competitive, Americans must be conversant with science and technology which imply mathematics. ❋ Robin Lakoff (2011)

Although he has lectured on architecture at Harvard and Rice, he is also fully conversant with pop culture. ❋ Richard B. Woodward (2011)

Fuller was in demand as a "conversationalist" and for a while earned her living appearing at women-only seminars in Boston, where she would opine on literature, history, philosophy and other subjects on which the ladies' Harvard-educated husbands, fathers and brothers were already conversant. ❋ Melanie Kirkpatrick (2012)

Mr. Perry, aiming to reintroduce himself to voters before the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses, is casting himself as a political outsider equally conversant in job creation and scripture—with a heavy emphasis, at times, on the latter. ❋ Danny Yadron (2011)

Winston Churchill was thoroughly conversant with the Bible. ❋ Roy M. Pitkin (2011)