Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Suitable; fit; proper; due.
- Accordant; agreeing; consistent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Fit; proper; suitable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
fit ;proper ;suitable
Etymologies
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And also no man may zeven covenable medicyne, but zif he knowe the qualitee of the dede.
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And also no man may zeven covenable medicyne, but zif he knowe the qualitee of the dede.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The statute is said to have been enacted en eide et confort du pape qui moult sovent a estee trublez par tieles et semblables clamours et impetracions, et qui y meist voluntiers covenable remedie, si sa seyntetee estoit sur ces choses enfournee.
The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856
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And also no man may zeven covenable medicyne, but zif he knowe the qualitee of the dede.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And they may best without challeng - ling of men go antl dwell among the people where Ptliey shullen most profit, and in covenable time come, and go after stirring of the Holy Ghost, and not be boundcn by sinful mens jurisdiction fro tiic better doing.
The History of the Church of Christ: from the days of the apostles, till the famous disputation ... 1812
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Without symony.] [Footnote 52: Compare Chaucer: ‘wherfore, as seith Senek, ther is nothing more covenable to a man of heigh estate than debonairté and pité; and therfore thise flies than men clepen bees, whan thay make here king, they chesen oon that hath no pricke wherwith he may stynge.’
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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"Lack-a-day! thou art tenfold as covenable and deliver [Note 3] as thou wert wont to be.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"5 temps covenable retourner;" que pleafe a vous, tres
Precedents of proceedings in the House of commons; with observations .. 1796
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