obversant

obversant

English

Etymology

From Latin obversans, present participle of obversari (“to hover before”), from ob (see ob-) + versare (“to move about”).

Adjective

obversant (comparative more obversant, superlative most obversant)

1. (obsolete) conversant; familiar
   • c. 1600-1620, Francis Bacon, Letter and Discourse to Sir Henry Savill

     And the third is example, which transformeth the will of man into the similitude of that which is most obversant and familiar towards it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for obversant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• Observant, bevatrons, observant