Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of convent
adjectiveconvented (comparative more convented, superlative most convented)
comparative more convented · superlative most convented
- obsoleteBrought together, convened.
Socrates in a fair, seeing so many things bought and sold, such a multitude of people convented to that purpose, exclaimed forthwith, “O ye gods, what a sight of things do not I want!”
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 3, member 3
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