conversus

American

[kuhn-vur-suhs] / kənˈvɜr səs /

noun

Ecclesiastical.

plural

conversi

a lay brother.

Etymology

Origin of conversus

< Latin, past participle of convertere to convert ¹; converse ²

Example Sentences

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Tum ego ad reginam conversus: 'Ecce inquam sacramentarios illos tam diu vexatos, et omnibus calumniis oppressos.'

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

"Festive, mihi crede, et minore sonitu, quam putaram, orbis hic in republica est conversus."

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony

Tu es qui ore tuo sancto et casto dixisti: in quacumque die conversus fuerit peccator, vita vivet et non morietur.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, July 1865 by

Boetius de consolatione philosophiæ, in Græcam linguam conversus a Maximo Planude.—

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John

Ibi tu in humanam naturam conversus Râvanam, gravissimam mundi pestem, diis insuperabilem, O Vishnus! proelio caede.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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