covenable
English
Etymology
Old French covenable.
Adjective
covenable (comparative more covenable, superlative most covenable)
- (obsolete) fit; proper; suitable
- Wyclif (Mark vi. 21)
- a covenable day
- Wyclif (Mark vi. 21)
Derived terms
- covenability
- covenableness
- covenably
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for covenable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Old French
Adjective
covenable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular covenable)
- appropriate; fitting