Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-VA-LES'CING, ppr.

Recovering health.

CON-VAL'LARY, n.

The anglification of Convallaria, the name of a genus of plants. – Muhlenberg.

CON-VEC'TION, n. [L. convectio, from conveho, to convey.]

A carrying. – Prout.

CON-VEN'A-BLE, n. [See Convene.]

1. That may be convened or assembled. – Panoplist, May, 1809.
2. Consistent. [Obs.] – Spenser.

CON-VENE', v.i. [L. convenio; con and venio, to come.]

1. To come together; to meet; to unite; as things. [Unusual.] The rays of light converge and convene in the eyes. – Newton.
2. To come together; to meet in the same place; to assemble; as persons. Parliament will convene in November. The two houses of the legislature convened at twelve o'clock. The citizens convened in the state house.

CON-VENE', v.t.

1. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. The president has power to convene the Congress on special occasions.
2. To summon judicially to meet or appear. By the papal canon law, clerks can be convened only before an ecclesiastical judge. – Ayliffe.

CON-VEN'ED, pp.

Assembled; convoked.

CON-VEN'ER, n.

One who convenes or meets with others; one who calls together.

CON-VEN'I-ENCE, or CON-VEN'I-EN-CY, n. [L. convenientia, from convenio. Literally, a coming together; a meeting. Hence,]

1. Fitness; suitableness; propriety; adaptation of one thing to another, or to circumstances. – Hooker.
2. Commodiousness; ease; freedom from difficulty. Every man must want something for the convenience of his life. – Calamy. There is another convenience in this method. – Swift.
3. That which gives ease; accommodation; that which is suited to wants or necessity. A pair of spectacles is a great convenience in old age.
4. Fitness of time or place. – Shak.

CON-VEN'I-ENT, a.

Fit; suitable; proper; adapted to use or to wants; commodious; followed by to or for; usually by for. Some arts are peculiarly convenient to particular nations. – Tillotson. Feed me with food convenient for me. – Prov. xxx.

CON-VEN'I-ENT-LY, adv.

1. Fitly; suitably; with adaptation to the end or effect. That house is not conveniently situated for a tradesman.
2. Commodiously; with ease; without trouble or difficulty. He can not conveniently accept the invitation.

CON-VEN'ING, n.

The act of coming together; convention.

CON-VEN'ING, ppr.

Coming together; calling together.

CON'VENT, n. [L. conventus, from convenio, to assemble; Fr. couvent.]

1. An assembly of persons devoted to religion; a body of monks or nuns.
2. A house for persons devoted to religion; an abbey; a monastery; a nunnery.

CON-VENT', v.i.

To meet; to concur. [Not used.] – Beaum.

CON-VENT', v.t. [L. conventus, convenio.]

To call before a judge or judicature. – Shak. Bacon.

CON-VENT'I-CLE, n. [L. conventiculum, dim. of conventus.]

1. An assembly or meeting usually applied to a meeting of dissenters from the established church, for religious worship. In this sense it is used by English writers and in English statutes. Hence, an assembly, in contempt. – Atterbury. In the United States, this word has no appropriate application, and is little used, or not at all.
2. A secret assembly or cabal; a meeting for plots. – Shak.

CON-VENT'I-CLE, v.i.

To belong to a conventicle. – South.

CON-VENT'I-CLER, n.

One who supports or frequents conventicles. – Dryden.

CON-VEN'TION, n. [L. conventio. See Convene.]

1. The act of coming together; a meeting of several persons or individuals. – Boyle.
2. Union; coalition.
3. An assembly. In this sense, the word includes any formal meeting or collection of men for civil or ecclesiastical purposes; particularly an assembly of delegates or representatives for consultation on important concerns, civil, political, or ecclesiastical. In Great Britain, convention is the name given to an extraordinary assembly of the estates of the realm, held without the king's writ; as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. In the United States, this name is given to the assembly of representatives which forms a constitution of government, or political association; as, the convention which formed the constitution of the United States in 1787.
4. An agreement or contract between two parties, as between the commanders of two armies; an agreement previous to a definitive treaty.

CON-VEN'TION-AL, a. [Fr. conventionnel.]

Stipulated; formed by agreement. Conventional services reserved by tenures on grants, made out of the crown or knights service. – Hale.

CON-VEN'TION-AL-ISM, n.

That which is received or established by convention or agreement.

CON-VEN'TION-A-RY, a.

Acting under contract; settled by stipulation; conventional; as, conventionary tenants. – Carew.

CON-VEN'TION-ER, n.

One who belongs to a convention.

CON-VEN'TION-IST, n.

One who makes a contract. – Sterne.