[f. as prec.: see -ANCY.] The state or quality of being conversant.
1798. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., VI. 553. This discipline does not … appear to have excluded him from conversancy with his nation.
1836. Sir H. Taylor, Statesman, Pref. 12. An extensive and diversified conversancy with business.
1851. F. Hall, in Benares Mag., VI. 884. Our native literati … have great injustice done them, on the score of their conversancy with languages.
1860. Mill, Repr. Govt. (1865) 39/2. A select commission, chosen for their conversancy with the subject.
