a. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
1. Of persons: Ready to converse; addicted to conversation; gifted with powers of conversation.
1799. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 78. Without being talkative I am conversational.
1844. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., l. Although Tom and his sister were extremely conversational, they were less lively.
2. Of, belonging to, or proper to conversation.
1779. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary (1842), I. 293. His conversational powers.
1814. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXXII. 286. That tone … which confers on the women of England a high conversational rank.
1861. Wright, Ess. Archaeol., II. xxii. 221. Provençal was degraded to be the mere conversational dialect of the vulgar.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 337. The conversational manner, the seeming want of arrangement … are found to result in a perfect work of art.
