conversance

But the conversance with our language in former times, even among those who devoted their attention to philology and instruction, was excessively scanty and inexact.

We will not presume to judge their motives, or profess conversance with the impulses that influenced their movements.

It imparts to literature the tone of the world—of the world not only of social eminence, but of practical experience and conversance with great affairs.

Edith, the gentle queen of Edward the Confessor, was noted alike for her skill with the needle and her conversance with literature.

They were all eager to show their conversance with the Brotherhood, its aims and potencies, and they were more than ready to besiege her father and to entertain her.