Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Suitable; fit; consistent; conformable.
- Capable of being convened or assembled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being convened or assembled.
- adjective obsolete Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper.
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- adjective obsolete
consistent ;accordant ;suitable ;proper
Etymologies
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Examples
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Les elections ne ce sont pas passees d'une maniere convenable et certains prefets, deputes ont intimider la population de voter leur maitre Sassou.
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Le blanc de plomb ordinaire est la couleur la plus propre à la peinture, parcequ'il a l'opacité convenable pour couvrir suffisamment, et assés de transparence pour laisser apercevoir et jouer le fond.
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Faut que j'achete une teinture convenable pour le forum de l'emploi.
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Serieux, delais de livraison TRES convenable, dans la norme quoi 3-4 jours voire moins des fois!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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I did not think it convenable to travel alone with the jeune brigand, so he did not wait for me.
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J'ai fait une journee convenable qui a fait 8h00-00h00!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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But Saint Peter the apostle, and they that came after him, have ordained to make their confession to man, and by good reason; for they perceived well that no sickness was curable, [ne] good medicine to lay thereto, but if men knew the nature of the malady; and also no man may give convenable medicine, but if he know the quality of the deed.
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For there grows no corn, ne wine, ne beans, ne peas, ne none other fruit convenable to man for to live with.
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Something more solid and homely she would have considered 'beaucoup plus convenable.'
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Our wives ne be not arrayed for to make no man pleasance, but only convenable array for to eschew folly.
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