CONVENTUAL
CONVENTUAL, adjective Belonging to a convent; monastic; as conventual priors.CONVENTUAL, noun One that lives in a convent; a monk or nun.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CONVERGE
CONVERGE, verb intransitive [Latin, to incline. See Verge.] To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together, as two lines which continually approach each other; op...
CONVERGENCE
CONVERGENCE, CONVERGENCY, noun The quality of converging; tendency to one point.
CONVERGENCY
CONVERGENCE, CONVERGENCY noun The quality of converging; tendency to one point.
CONVERGENT
CONVERGENT, adjective Tending to one point; approaching each other, as they proceed or are extending.
CONVERGING
CONVERGING, participle present tense Tending to one point; approaching each other, as lines extended.CONVERGING rays, in optics, those rays of light, which proceeding from diffe...
CONVERSABLE
CONVERSABLE, adjective [See Converse.] Qualified for conversation, or rather disposed to converse; ready or inclined to mutual communication of thoughts; sociable; free in disco...
CONVERSABLENESS
CONVERSABLENESS, noun The quality of being free in conversation; disposition or readiness to converse; sociability.
CONVERSABLY
CONVERSABLY, adverb In a conversable manner.
CONVERSANT
CONVERSANT, adjective [See Converse.]1. Keeping company; having frequent or customary intercourse; intimately associating; familiar by fellowship or cohabitation; acquainted.But...
CONVERSATION
CONVERSATION, noun1. General course of manners; behavior; deportment; especially as it respects morals.Let your conversation be as becometh the gospel. Philippians 1:27.Be ye ho...
CONVERSATIONED
CONVERSATIONED, adjective Acquainted with the manner of acting in life. [Not used.]
CONVERSATIVE
CONVERSATIVE, adjective Relating to an intercourse with men; opposed to contemplative.She chose to endue him with conversative qualities of youth.
CONVERSAZIONE
CONVERSAZIONE, noun A meeting of company.
CONVERSE
CONVERSE, verb intransitive [Latin, to be turned. Literally, to be turned to or with; to be turned about.]1. To keep company; to associate; to cohabit; to hold intercourse and b...
CONVERSELY
CONVERSELY, adverb With change of order; in a contrary order; reciprocally.
CONVERSION
CONVERSION, noun [Latin See Convert.]1. In a general sense, a turning or change from one state to another; with regard to substances, transmutation; as a conversion of water int...
CONVERT
CONVERT, verb transitive [Latin, to turn; coinciding in elements and signification with barter.]1. To change or turn into another substance or form; as, to convert gases into wa...
CONVERTED
CONVERTED, participle passive Turned or changed from one substance or state to another; turned form one religion or sect to another; changed from a state of sin to a state of ho...
CONVERTER
CONVERTER, noun One who converts; one who makes converts.
CONVERTIBILITY
CONVERTIBILITY, noun [from convertible.]1. The quality of being possible to be converted or changed from one substance, form or state to another; as the convertibility of land i...
CONVERTIBLE
CONVERTIBLE, adjective1. That may be changed; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable.Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus.2. S...
CONVERTIBLY
CONVERTIBLY, adverb Reciprocally; with interchange of terms.
CONVERTITE
CONVERTITE, noun A convert. [Not in use.]
CONVEX
CONVEX, adjective [Latin] Rising or swelling on the exterior surface into a spherical or round form; gibbous; opposed to concave, which expresses a round form of the interior su...
CONVEXED
CONVEXED, adjective Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.
CONVEXEDLY
CONVEXEDLY, adverb In a convex form.