obversant

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

obversant (comparative more obversant, superlative most obversant)

1. (obsolete) conversant; familiar or in the know about a certain topic.
   • 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.

• “obversant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Observant, bevatrons, observant