convenable, or convenable

[Fr. convenable.] I. Lit .: Capable of being convened or brought together. II. Figuratively : 1. Fitting, suitable, consistent, convenient, or proper. IMG:content-0829.png:[ocr errors] p. 180. convenable remedies." Time's Storehouse, Followed by for . "It is as convenable for us to speake of the exercise of disciplines, as of those which concerne the earth?" Storehouse , 54, 2. IMG:content-0830.png:[blocks in formation] people, 2. Fitne of time or place " Let me have judgment." London. with all brief and plain conveniency Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. 13. A suitable or convenient time. 4. Anything which is a cause or source of comfort, help, or accommodation. "There was a pair of spectacles, a pocket perspective, and several other little conveniences,."-Swift: Gulliver's Travels. con-ve-ni-ent, a. [Lat. conveniens , pr. par. of convenio to come together.] [CONVENE.] *1. Fitting, becoming. ". foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.."-Ephes. v. 4. 2. Suitable, appropriate. "The least and most trivial episodes, or under actions, are either nece ary or convenient."-Dryden: Ded ication to the Eneid. (1) Followed by for before the person or thing suited. feed me with food convenient for me."-Prov. *(2) Followed by to . IMG:content-0831.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Spec.: To meet together for the transaction of connected with moral propriety: nothing is con any public busine . "There are settled periods of their convening , -Locke. *II. Figuratively : venient which does not favor one's purpose: noth. "ing is suitable which does not suit the person, place, and thing: whoever has anything to ask of another must take a convenient opportunity in order to in addre on such an occasion would sure succesuitable , if he affected to claim as a right Synon.) what he ought to solicit as a favor." ( Crabb : Eng . 1. To agree, to accord, to be consistent. ( Scotch .) "The halines of the doctrine conucinis not to the con uenticle of the Caluinistes."- Hamilton: Facile Traictise, p. 141. IMG:content-0832.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Legal : To summon to appear before a court. "By the papal canon law, clerks, in criminal and civil causes, cannot be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge." -Ayliffe. con-vēned, pa. par. or a. [CONVENE.] *con-ve-nee', s. [Eng, conven (e); -ee.] One who is convened or summoned to a meeting with others con-vēn-er, s. [Eng. conven(e); -er.] 1. One who meets with others at any place for a particular busine . "I do reverence the conveners for their places, worth, and learning."-Mountagu: App . to Cæsar , p. 70. (2) For the difference between convenient and commodious, see COMMODIOUS. con-ve-ni-ent-ly, adv . [Eng. convenient ; -ly.] 1. Fitly, suitably, appropriately. 2. With proper arrangement or adaptation. 3. Commodiously, with ease, without trouble or discomfort. *con-ve-ni-ent-ne , *con-ve-ni-ent-ne e, s. [Eng. convenient ; -ne .] The quality of being convenient; convenience, fitne . côn-vēn'-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [CONVENE.] A. & B. As pr . par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) IMG:content-0833.png:[blocks in formation] A. As substantive : I. Ordinary Language : *1. Gen .: A coming together, a meeting. "A usual ceremony at their convents or meetings." Ben Jonson. 2. In the same sense as II. 1. 3. In the same sense as II. 2. II. Technically : 1. Ecclesiology : 1099 & Port. conventiculo; Ital. conventicolo , all from con-ven-ti-cle, s. & a. [Fr. conventicule ; Sp. Lat. conventiculum =a small a emblage, from con- vent us.] [CONVENT, 8.] I. Ordinary Language : †1. Gen.: A small gathering, an a embly. "They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatever."- Auliffe . 2. Spec .: A small gathering for religious worship. The word was applied to the schools of Wycliffe, Afterward it was used of Di enters from the Estab- lishment in Queen Elizabeth's time, but it did not come into great prominence till the pa ing of the Uniformity Act in 1662. Then Conventicles was employed as a term of contempt for the gatherings of Nonconformists in England and of Covenanters established Churches of their respective countries, in Scotland, who remained in separation from the [CONVENTICLE ACT.] " Hist. Eng., ch. vi. II. Technically : Conventicle Acts : under (1) dwells; a monastery nunnery. ".. yon mountains hide The little convent of Saint Bride." Scott: The Lord of the Isles, iv. 15. 2. Hist .: In this country owing to religious upheavals going on in the old world, a very large number of the religious consecrate of the Roman Catholic Church have found refuge. One of the oldest of our Commonwealths, that of Maryland, was settled by the Catholics, who at an early date laid the foundations of numerous convents and monasteries. As the settlements and centers of population pushed further in every direction from the eastern coast of this country, the devoted emis. saries of the Church were in the van, and the result has been the building and organization of some of the most noted convents in the world. Scarcely a large town in the country is without its convent or nunnery, while in many of the larger cities there are several communities of either sex. The term convent is in this country applied almost exclusively to an establishment containing a sodality of nuns, the male religiouses being denominated monks and their establishments monasteries. It is said that the first convent in England was erected by Eadbald at Folk est one in 630, and the first in Scotland at Coldingham in 670. They were numerous during the Middle Ages. Henry VIII. suppre ed them, confiscating their revenues. By the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 their erection in the United Kingdom was prohibited, but the Act was from the first so much of a dead letter that they were established in various places with no protest from the community in general. For a long time convents in Britain were founded by the Church of Rome only, but in 1875 one was pened at Bourne mouth under the auspices of the Ritualist party the Establishment. B. As adj .: Pertaining to a convent, specially in the sense of A. II. 1 (2). For the difference between convent and cloister , See CLOISTER. Obvious compounds: Convent - bell ( Scott : Lord of the Isles, iv. 21), convent - bread (Words worth: White Doe, i.), convent - cell ( Scott : Lord of the Isles, vi. 6), convent- gloom ( Ibid ., v. 9), convent - wall ( Long fellow : Dante). *convent-loaf, s. Fine manchet-bread [MAN CHET.] months they were to abjure the realm, and if they would not do this, or if after abjuration they returned to the country again, they were to be hanged. By the Conventicle Act, 16 Chas. II., c. 4, pa ed in 1664, it was enacted that whenever five persons more than the inmates of the house where a conventicle was held attended it, every one of them was liable to a penalty of £5 ($25), three months' imprisonment for the first offense, twice as much for the second, and a fine of £100 ($500) or transportation for seven years for the third. The penalties were modified by the 22 Chas. II., c. 1, pa ed in 1670, and the Act itself repealed by the Toleration Act, 1 Will. & Mary, c. 18, § 1, pa ed May 24, 1689. Similar enactments were in force in Scotland at the same period. ( Town send , .) *con-văn-ti-cle, v. i. [From conventicle, s. (q.v.)] To partake of the nature of a conventicle; to be connected with a conventicle.