adv. [f. as prec. + -LY.] In a conversable manner; † conversationally.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), I. 44. Nor is there any people, either in the island, or on the continent, that speaks it [the old Greek] conversably.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
1755. in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.
