a. rare. [f. L. conversāt- ppl. stem of conversārī to CONVERSE + -IVE.] † a. Belonging to, or fitted for, social intercourse; sociable. Obs. b. Ready to converse or talk, given to conversation, talkative.
1631. Bp. Webbe, Quietn. (1657), 179. Actions conversative doe consist in the ordering of our conversation.
1651. Reliq. Wotton., 76. To endue him with conversative qualities and ornaments of youth.
a. 1703. Burkitt, On N. T., Luke ii. 45. Of a free and conversative, not of a sullen and morose disposition.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., II. 108. He was very entertaining and conversative.
