Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
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puhekieltä The back-and-forth play of the blades in a bout.
puhekieltäinteraction Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others. (defdate)
1526, (w), trans. Bible, Acts XI:
Yt chaunsed thatt a whole yere they had their conversacion with the congregacion there, and taught moche people insomoche thatt the disciples off Antioche we the fyrst that wer called Christen.
(RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncl), New York Review of Books, 2001, p.50:
There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation, and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest.
1983, James Frederick Mason, Hélène Joséphine Harvitt, The French review
Gone now are the "high-minded" style, the "adapted from literature" feel, the voice-over narration, and the abstract conversationing about ideas, values...
1989, Robert L Gale, A Henry James encyclopedia
...he has breakfasted me, dined me, conversationed me, absolutely caressed me. He has been really most kind and paternal...
2002, Georgie Nickell, I Only Smoke on Thursdays
After all this conversationing, Scottie, my usual dance partner, was getting antsy and wanted to dance.