conveniencen.

/kənˈviːnɪəns/

Etymology: < Latin convenientia meeting together, agreement, accord, harmony, conformity, suitableness, fitness, noun of quality < convenient-em convenient adj. and n.: see -ence suffix. (The word also occurs in French in 15–16th cent.: but the actual French equivalent is convenance.)

†1.

a. Agreement, accordance; congruity of form, quality, or nature. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun]

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correspondence1413

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consistency1659

consentaneousness1660

consistence1670

comportment1675

harmoniousness1679

symbolism1722

congruousness1727

accordancy1790

sameness1790

consentaneity1798

consilience1840

chime1847

consensus1854

solidarity1874

synchromesh1966

concordancing1976

1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iv. xxvi. 71 Ther is a maner of conuenyence bytwene the thynge that is sene in the myrroure, and that other that is sene withouten.

c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. xvi. 55 b Atwene the Cedre of trees of royal And a sharpe thistle is no conuenience.

1554 T. Sampson in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xviii. 52 There is no convenience between Christ and Belial.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 189 Divination..made from the similitude, and convenience betwixt them [inferior creatures], and the stars.

†b. An agreement, a correspondence. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > an instance of

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1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1274/1 Thys kynde of man created God of a merueylous conuenience also, with al other maner of creatures.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 232 For want of these requir'd conueniences .

†c. of convenience: in accordance (with the premisses or facts); as a matter of congruity, accordingly. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > in conformity with or according to [phrase] > the premises or facts

of convenience1530

1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory ii. v. sig. c2^v Of conuenyence it foloweth that the soule of man must nedys be immortall.

1564 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge xii. f. 137^v Thus it foloweth of conuenience..[that] the fleshe is not the same according to the qualities of the exhibiting.

†2. An agreement, a covenant. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement

forewardOE

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gentlemen's agreement1880

meeting of minds1883

1551 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. ii. xxix. 243 For the conclusion of such conveniences as were drawn and articulated between the D. of Somerset and the said company.

†3. Accordance of nature; fitness, aptitude. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun]

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competibilitya1660

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feating1682

resemblance1715

idoneousness1727

appropriateness1731

favourableness1775

adaptitude1806

adaptment1831

c1430 J. Lydgate Hornys Away 60 in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems 47 In whom alle verteu is, by iust conuenience, Made stable in god by gostly confidence.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 772 The conuenience of both their ages and estates.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. ii. 72 The Duke will lay vpon him all the honor That good conuenience claimes.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 95 Convenience, or Aptitude to produce the Peace.

1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 348 As its use is very easie, so its convenience is very great.

1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §2. 74 Proportion relates almost wholly to convenience, as every idea of order seems to do.

†4. Moral or ethical fitness; propriety. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun]

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1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. Pref. O! how much did they vainly glorie in this Congruitie and Convenience of their actions.

5. The quality of being convenient, generally: i.e. of being suitable or well-adapted to the performance of some action or to the satisfying of requirements; suitability, commodiousness.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [noun]

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commodation1578

commodiosity1589

conveniency1603

dexterity1611

conveniency1612

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a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 236 Ile beate him..if I can meete him with any conuenience .

1662 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 3) ii. iii. 50 in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) The great convenience and pleasure of Navigation.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 260 Vera Cruz..where I should have Convenience of imbarking for Spain.

1728 T. Sheridan in tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) Prol. 3 The Ancients, at the erecting of Villages, had a regard to the Convenience of Water.

1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. iii. 130 The convenience and the facility of decimal arithmetic for ‘calculation’.

6. The quality of being personally convenient; ease or absence of trouble in use or action; material advantage or absence of disadvantage; commodity, personal comfort; saving of trouble. Hence at one's convenience, to suit or await one's convenience, marriage of convenience, etc.

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the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [noun] > personal convenience

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the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] > opportunity > convenient to a person

conveniency1649

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1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 154 The best forming of all Members in a Building for the..Convenience of the intended Inhabitant.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶3 His intended Son-in-Law, who had all along regarded this Alliance rather as a Marriage of Convenience than of Love.

1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 14 It is only for Convenience, or Ease, that you are content to take them.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 125 A building..for the convenience of the drinkers.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 55 Articles of necessity, convenience, or luxury.

1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 14 The convenience of borrowing and lending in one generally recognized commodity.

1888 M. Morris Claverhouse vii. 127 Like Pilate again, he preferred his own convenience, and the prisoner was put to death.

1890 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Christm. No. 276 He awaited my convenience in the drawing-room.

7. (with a and plural)

a. A convenient state or condition of matters; an advantage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [noun] > a convenience

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readiness1523

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accommodation1612

conveniency1638

modern convenience1859

amenity1913

mod con1934

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 7 I haue abandond Troy..exposd my selfe, From certaine and possest conueniences, To doubtfull fortunes.

1647 C. Cotterell & W. Aylesbury tr. E. C. Davila Hist. Civill Warres France i. 36 He should..obtain..riches..with divers other conveniences.

1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 82 Men who want a present Convenience must not be over-solicitous about future Contingencies.

1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. v. §6 There is sometimes a convenience in extending the boundaries of a class.

b. An opportune occasion, an opportunity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun]

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window of opportunity1942

op1978

1679 Jesuites Ghostly Ways 7 Having let slip so fair an opportunity and convenience, for him to perform his bloody..design.

1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 430 That he buy Books the next convenience.

1832 C. Dickens Let. 30 July (1965) I. 7 You will perhaps oblige me with a line at your earliest convenience.

c. plural. Material arrangements or appliances conducive to personal comfort, ease of action, or saving of trouble. (Rarely in singular)

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > material comfort(s)

ease1393

creature1540

creature comforts1641

comfortable1650

comfort1659

convenience1673

conveniency1712

home comfort1797

comforter1837

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. v. 100 These Dæmons have no administration of the conveniences of man's life.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 351. ¶4 They were eating their Flesh upon cakes of Bread, for want of other Conveniences.

1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 8 Sept. (1965) I. 259 Having in them all the conveniencys of a Palace.

1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 368 Unfit, from their barbarous sloth and ignorance, to raise any convenience of human life.

1814 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) VII. i. 220/1 Labourers, whom he pays with what are called conveniences; these consist in a house, ground for potatoes, grass for sheep and cows, etc.

1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxii. 569 Necessary conveniences for the homestead.

d. A particular appliance; a utensil; formerly applied commonly to a conveyance; now often used euphemistically, spec. a (public) lavatory, a water-closet; esp. in public convenience.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > [noun]

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port1598

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vehicle1641

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convenience1671

machine1687

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transportation1853

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking > a device or contrivance

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art1667

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rig1845

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory

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W.C.1815

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Johnny1847

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small room1858

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bathroom1883

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place1902

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head1920

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dike1923

smallest room1930

John1931

khazi1932

loo1940

biffy1942

Wa1953

shitcan1954

commode1958

cludgie1961

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory > public

vespasienne1834

public lavatory1880

chalet1881

public toilet1895

rear1902

cottage1909

comfort station1923

public convenience1938

vespasian1938

facility1939

superloo1965

1671 Sir C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 65 Before they can order theyr convenience to London by land.

1700 Gov. Nicholson in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 120 To find a convenience and provide necessaries for his voyage hither.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xxxix. 19 A convenience to spit in appeared on one side of her chair.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. xii. xi. 293 A man packed up in this leather convenience, with a wife and two children.

1841 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical I. xlii. 236 A convenience, from which emanated the disagreeableness.

1883 Manch. Examiner 30 Oct. 8/4 A post-office car, which contains that great convenience a letter box.

1883 Stevenson in Longman's Mag. 2 296 An American railroad-car..with a stove and a convenience, one at either end.

1938 O. Lancaster Pillar to Post p. xiii The cathedral, the Dean's house..and the public convenience..are all ‘architecture’.

1958 B. Hamilton Too Much of Water ix. 185 Gents and Ladies bathrooms and conveniences.

1963 V. Nabokov Gift iii. 156 A public convenience with thujas around it.

e. transferred of a person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > manipulation or exploitation > one who is exploited

conveniency1729

convenience1866

exploitee1893

nigger1941

1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice iii. v. 350 A God, who without maintaining any good of principle, consents to be only the convenience of all.

1893 N.E.D. at Convenience Mod. They wanted to make a convenience of me.

†8. Means of living conveniently, competence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > sufficient means

sufficiency1495

competent1574

competency1625

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independency1747

independence1816

a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. xx. 44 The best part of his convenience he acknowledgeth to receive from the family of the Lancelloti.

9. attributive, in sense ‘designed for convenience; used when convenient’. Originally U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [adjective]

i-tasea1000

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convenience1961

1961 Economist 2 Dec. 910/1 Even the Thanksgiving turkey has now become a ‘convenience’ food.

1965 Daily Express 11 Nov. 2/8 The ‘convenience store’ is always open in America.

1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. iii. 10/5 Send us your favorite recipe using convenience foods (frozen or refrigerated prepared foods, canned soups, sauce mixes, cake mixes etc.) and you may win a $10 prize.

1968 Guardian 6 Dec. 9/5 No one would deny the drudgery, the time-wasting, the monotony, that has been removed by convenience foods.

1970 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 June 1/6 A woman was shot in the arm as she watched a fire at a convenience store.

Draft additions June 2016

convenience store n. chiefly North American a small local shop; (now) esp. one with extended opening hours, stocking a limited range of household goods and groceries.

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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop > local

convenience store1902

duka1912

dairy1914

sari-sari store1925

café1957

corner shop1963

neighbourhood friendly1970

depanneur1975

kirana1979

1902 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 23 Aug. 21/5 Isler and Thyson kept a grocery and general convenience store, where could be purchased everything 'from a plow to a needle'.

1917 F. Crissey Story of Foods xxx. 472 While the original idea of the delicatessen was that it should be a shop of delicacies, it has now become a convenience store, a place where the busy housewife may buy a cooked or ‘ready-to-eat’ meal.

1977 Texas Monthly Apr. 102/2 Pete stops at a convenience store late at night for a pack of cigarettes.

2006 M. Faber in Granta Summer 54 On her way to see Sasha she stops off at a convenience store and buys two bars of chocolate.

Draft additions September 2006

convenience food n. a type of food or meal which requires little or no preparation or cooking time, esp. one sold prepackaged or frozen.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > convenience food

convenience food1942

fast food1952

1942 Jrnl. Marketing 6 No. 4. ii. 52/2 Labor-saving foods, convenience foods, are therefore in great demand.

1972 Times 10 Apr. 14 To the consumer takeaway meals are the convenience food, better value than either frozen or dried products.

1996 D. Ornish Everyday Cooking 34 Most supermarket freezer sections contain a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and other convenience foods that you can use to make meals on the double.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	convenience
释义	conveniencen. /kənˈviːnɪəns/ Etymology: < Latin convenientia meeting together, agreement, accord, harmony, conformity, suitableness, fitness, noun of quality < convenient-em convenient adj. and n.: see -ence suffix. (The word also occurs in French in 15–16th cent.: but the actual French equivalent is convenance.) †1. a. Agreement, accordance; congruity of form, quality, or nature. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] accordmentc1330 accorda1398 consonancya1398 unitya1398 accordancea1400 commoningc1400 convenience1413 correspondence1413 answeringc1425 conformityc1430 consonance1430 congruity1447 concordancec1450 consonantc1475 agreement1495 monochordc1500 conveniencya1513 agreeance1525 agreeableness1531 concinnity1531 congruence1533 harmony?1533 concent1563 tunableness1569 agreeing1575 answerableness1577 concert1578 consent1578 sympathy1578 concord1579 symphonia1579 correspondency1589 atone1595 coherence1597 respondence1598 symphony1598 sortance1600 coherency1603 respondency1603 symbolizing1605 coaptation1614 compositiona1616 sympathizing1632 comportance1648 compliance1649 syntax1649 concinneness1655 symmetry1655 homology1656 consistency1659 consentaneousness1660 consistence1670 comportment1675 harmoniousness1679 symbolism1722 congruousness1727 accordancy1790 sameness1790 consentaneity1798 consilience1840 chime1847 consensus1854 solidarity1874 synchromesh1966 concordancing1976 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) iv. xxvi. 71 Ther is a maner of conuenyence bytwene the thynge that is sene in the myrroure, and that other that is sene withouten. c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. xvi. 55 b Atwene the Cedre of trees of royal And a sharpe thistle is no conuenience. 1554 T. Sampson in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xviii. 52 There is no convenience between Christ and Belial. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 189 Divination..made from the similitude, and convenience betwixt them [inferior creatures], and the stars. †b. An agreement, a correspondence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [noun] > an instance of convenience1534 concordance1605 congruity1605 congruency1615 concinnity1640 coincidencea1661 consistency1771 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1274/1 Thys kynde of man created God of a merueylous conuenience also, with al other maner of creatures. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 232 For want of these requir'd conueniences . View more context for this quotation †c. of convenience: in accordance (with the premisses or facts); as a matter of congruity, accordingly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > in conformity with or according to [phrase] > the premises or facts of convenience1530 1530 J. Rastell New Bk. Purgatory ii. v. sig. c2^v Of conuenyence it foloweth that the soule of man must nedys be immortall. 1564 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge xii. f. 137^v Thus it foloweth of conuenience..[that] the fleshe is not the same according to the qualities of the exhibiting. †2. An agreement, a covenant. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement forewardOE accordc1275 covenant1297 end1297 form1297 frettec1330 conjurationc1374 treatc1380 bargainc1386 contractc1386 comenaunt1389 compositionc1405 treaty1427 pact1429 paction1440 reconventionc1449 treatisea1464 hostage1470 packa1475 trystc1480 bond (also band) of manrent1482 covenance1484 concordance1490 patisement1529 capitulation1535 conventmenta1547 convenience1551 compact1555 negotiation1563 sacrament1563 match1569 consortship1592 after-agreementa1600 combourgeoisie1602 convention1603 comburghership1606 transaction1611 end-makingc1613 obligement1627 bare contract1641 stipulation1649 accompackmentc1650 rue-bargaina1657 concordat1683 minute1720 tacka1758 understanding1803 meet1804 it's a go1821 deal1863 whizz1869 stand-in1870 gentlemen's agreement1880 meeting of minds1883 1551 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. ii. xxix. 243 For the conclusion of such conveniences as were drawn and articulated between the D. of Somerset and the said company. †3. Accordance of nature; fitness, aptitude. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [noun] covenablenessa1382 covenabletec1384 propertya1387 abilitya1398 congruencec1430 conveniencec1430 meetnessc1449 congruencya1513 conveniency1526 congruity1530 familiarity1551 suitableness1594 familiarnessa1617 idoneity1617 connaturalnessa1628 suitability1648 adequateness1650 adaptness1657 competibilitya1660 accommodateness1660 adaptation1663 adaptedness1673 evenliness1674 condecence1678 decorousness1678 feating1682 resemblance1715 idoneousness1727 appropriateness1731 favourableness1775 adaptitude1806 adaptment1831 c1430 J. Lydgate Hornys Away 60 in Polit. Relig. & Love Poems 47 In whom alle verteu is, by iust conuenience, Made stable in god by gostly confidence. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 772 The conuenience of both their ages and estates. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. ii. 72 The Duke will lay vpon him all the honor That good conuenience claimes. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 95 Convenience, or Aptitude to produce the Peace. 1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 348 As its use is very easie, so its convenience is very great. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful iii. §2. 74 Proportion relates almost wholly to convenience, as every idea of order seems to do. †4. Moral or ethical fitness; propriety. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] foȝa1250 mensea1525 properness1531 justice?1551 decentness1561 dueness1576 conveniency1583 fitness1597 propriety1612 fittingness1653 convenience1677 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. Pref. O! how much did they vainly glorie in this Congruitie and Convenience of their actions. 5. The quality of being convenient, generally: i.e. of being suitable or well-adapted to the performance of some action or to the satisfying of requirements; suitability, commodiousness. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [noun] commodityc1425 handsomeness1530 commodiousness1570 commodation1578 commodiosity1589 conveniency1603 dexterity1611 conveniency1612 conveniencea1616 commodement1653 commodationa1676 a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 236 Ile beate him..if I can meete him with any conuenience . View more context for this quotation 1662 H. More Antidote against Atheism (ed. 3) ii. iii. 50 in Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 2) The great convenience and pleasure of Navigation. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 260 Vera Cruz..where I should have Convenience of imbarking for Spain. 1728 T. Sheridan in tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) Prol. 3 The Ancients, at the erecting of Villages, had a regard to the Convenience of Water. 1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. iii. 130 The convenience and the facility of decimal arithmetic for ‘calculation’. 6. The quality of being personally convenient; ease or absence of trouble in use or action; material advantage or absence of disadvantage; commodity, personal comfort; saving of trouble. Hence at one's convenience, to suit or await one's convenience, marriage of convenience, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [noun] > personal convenience avenantc1400 easementc1400 commodity1493 convenientness1579 conveniencya1628 convenience1679 convenancy1769 the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] > opportunity > convenient to a person conveniency1649 convenience1890 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 154 The best forming of all Members in a Building for the..Convenience of the intended Inhabitant. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶3 His intended Son-in-Law, who had all along regarded this Alliance rather as a Marriage of Convenience than of Love. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Shop-keepers of Ireland (new ed.) 14 It is only for Convenience, or Ease, that you are content to take them. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 125 A building..for the convenience of the drinkers. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 55 Articles of necessity, convenience, or luxury. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money (1878) 14 The convenience of borrowing and lending in one generally recognized commodity. 1888 M. Morris Claverhouse vii. 127 Like Pilate again, he preferred his own convenience, and the prisoner was put to death. 1890 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Christm. No. 276 He awaited my convenience in the drawing-room. 7. (with a and plural) a. A convenient state or condition of matters; an advantage. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [noun] > a convenience ease1393 readiness1523 convenience1609 accommodation1612 conveniency1638 modern convenience1859 amenity1913 mod con1934 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iii. iii. 7 I haue abandond Troy..exposd my selfe, From certaine and possest conueniences, To doubtfull fortunes. 1647 C. Cotterell & W. Aylesbury tr. E. C. Davila Hist. Civill Warres France i. 36 He should..obtain..riches..with divers other conveniences. 1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 82 Men who want a present Convenience must not be over-solicitous about future Contingencies. 1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. v. §6 There is sometimes a convenience in extending the boundaries of a class. b. An opportune occasion, an opportunity. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > [noun] chance1297 occasiona1382 leisurec1386 opportunitya1387 advantage1487 portunity1516 in the nick1565 mean1592 vantage?1592 occasionet1593 overture1610 hinta1616 largeness1625 convenience1679 tid1721 opening1752 offer1831 slant1837 show1842 showing1852 show-up1883 window of opportunity1942 op1978 1679 Jesuites Ghostly Ways 7 Having let slip so fair an opportunity and convenience, for him to perform his bloody..design. 1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 430 That he buy Books the next convenience. 1832 C. Dickens Let. 30 July (1965) I. 7 You will perhaps oblige me with a line at your earliest convenience. c. plural. Material arrangements or appliances conducive to personal comfort, ease of action, or saving of trouble. (Rarely in singular) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > material comfort(s) ease1393 creature1540 creature comforts1641 comfortable1650 comfort1659 convenience1673 conveniency1712 home comfort1797 comforter1837 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. v. 100 These Dæmons have no administration of the conveniences of man's life. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 351. ¶4 They were eating their Flesh upon cakes of Bread, for want of other Conveniences. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 8 Sept. (1965) I. 259 Having in them all the conveniencys of a Palace. 1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. 368 Unfit, from their barbarous sloth and ignorance, to raise any convenience of human life. 1814 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) VII. i. 220/1 Labourers, whom he pays with what are called conveniences; these consist in a house, ground for potatoes, grass for sheep and cows, etc. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxii. 569 Necessary conveniences for the homestead. d. A particular appliance; a utensil; formerly applied commonly to a conveyance; now often used euphemistically, spec. a (public) lavatory, a water-closet; esp. in public convenience. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > [noun] passagec1300 carriagea1398 port1598 conveyancea1616 vehicle1641 conveniency1660 convenience1671 machine1687 voiture1698 transportation1853 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking > a device or contrivance compassinga1300 graithc1375 jetc1380 cautelc1440 quaint?a1450 invention1546 trick1548 frame1558 fashion1562 device1570 conveyance1596 address1598 molition1598 fabric1600 machine1648 fancy1665 art1667 fanglementa1670 convenience1671 conveniency1725 contraption1825 affair1835 rig1845 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory closet1496 water closet1736 water closet1747 throne room1787 W.C.1815 netty1825 convenience1841 Johnny1847 lavabo1852 restrooma1856 small room1858 cloakroom1865 lavatory1874 bathroom1883 toilet1886 can1900 place1902 lav1913 washroom1919 head1920 lavvy1922 dike1923 smallest room1930 John1931 khazi1932 loo1940 biffy1942 Wa1953 shitcan1954 commode1958 cludgie1961 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory > public vespasienne1834 public lavatory1880 chalet1881 public toilet1895 rear1902 cottage1909 comfort station1923 public convenience1938 vespasian1938 facility1939 superloo1965 1671 Sir C. Lyttelton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 65 Before they can order theyr convenience to London by land. 1700 Gov. Nicholson in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 120 To find a convenience and provide necessaries for his voyage hither. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xxxix. 19 A convenience to spit in appeared on one side of her chair. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. xii. xi. 293 A man packed up in this leather convenience, with a wife and two children. 1841 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical I. xlii. 236 A convenience, from which emanated the disagreeableness. 1883 Manch. Examiner 30 Oct. 8/4 A post-office car, which contains that great convenience a letter box. 1883 Stevenson in Longman's Mag. 2 296 An American railroad-car..with a stove and a convenience, one at either end. 1938 O. Lancaster Pillar to Post p. xiii The cathedral, the Dean's house..and the public convenience..are all ‘architecture’. 1958 B. Hamilton Too Much of Water ix. 185 Gents and Ladies bathrooms and conveniences. 1963 V. Nabokov Gift iii. 156 A public convenience with thujas around it. e. transferred of a person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > manipulation or exploitation > one who is exploited conveniency1729 convenience1866 exploitee1893 nigger1941 1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice iii. v. 350 A God, who without maintaining any good of principle, consents to be only the convenience of all. 1893 N.E.D. at Convenience Mod. They wanted to make a convenience of me. †8. Means of living conveniently, competence. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > sufficient means sufficiency1495 competent1574 competency1625 conveniencya1628 competencea1640 conveniencea1680 independency1747 independence1816 a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) i. xx. 44 The best part of his convenience he acknowledgeth to receive from the family of the Lancelloti. 9. attributive, in sense ‘designed for convenience; used when convenient’. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [adjective] i-tasea1000 queemlOE gainc1330 conablea1340 convenientc1374 covenablec1380 convenable1421 conveniable1432 comenablea1500 commodious1541 necessary1541 commode1549 commoditious1574 dexterous1605 commoditous1621 friendly1713 clever1757 convenience1961 1961 Economist 2 Dec. 910/1 Even the Thanksgiving turkey has now become a ‘convenience’ food. 1965 Daily Express 11 Nov. 2/8 The ‘convenience store’ is always open in America. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. iii. 10/5 Send us your favorite recipe using convenience foods (frozen or refrigerated prepared foods, canned soups, sauce mixes, cake mixes etc.) and you may win a $10 prize. 1968 Guardian 6 Dec. 9/5 No one would deny the drudgery, the time-wasting, the monotony, that has been removed by convenience foods. 1970 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 June 1/6 A woman was shot in the arm as she watched a fire at a convenience store. Draft additions June 2016 convenience store n. chiefly North American a small local shop; (now) esp. one with extended opening hours, stocking a limited range of household goods and groceries. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop > local convenience store1902 duka1912 dairy1914 sari-sari store1925 café1957 corner shop1963 neighbourhood friendly1970 depanneur1975 kirana1979 1902 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 23 Aug. 21/5 Isler and Thyson kept a grocery and general convenience store, where could be purchased everything 'from a plow to a needle'. 1917 F. Crissey Story of Foods xxx. 472 While the original idea of the delicatessen was that it should be a shop of delicacies, it has now become a convenience store, a place where the busy housewife may buy a cooked or ‘ready-to-eat’ meal. 1977 Texas Monthly Apr. 102/2 Pete stops at a convenience store late at night for a pack of cigarettes. 2006 M. Faber in Granta Summer 54 On her way to see Sasha she stops off at a convenience store and buys two bars of chocolate. Draft additions September 2006 convenience food n. a type of food or meal which requires little or no preparation or cooking time, esp. one sold prepackaged or frozen. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > convenience food convenience food1942 fast food1952 1942 Jrnl. Marketing 6 No. 4. ii. 52/2 Labor-saving foods, convenience foods, are therefore in great demand. 1972 Times 10 Apr. 14 To the consumer takeaway meals are the convenience food, better value than either frozen or dried products. 1996 D. Ornish Everyday Cooking 34 Most supermarket freezer sections contain a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, and other convenience foods that you can use to make meals on the double. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021). conveniencev. Brit. /kənˈviːnɪəns/, U.S. /kənˈvinjəns/ Etymology: < convenience n. transitive. To afford convenience or accommodation to; to suit; to accommodate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > be convenient to [verb (transitive)] suit1570 accommodate1608 convenience1630 1630 J. Hales Let. conc. Weapon-salve 23 Nov. 289 in Golden Remains (1673) What way we may be pleasur'd and convenienced. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. Ep. to Rdr. According as they..do convenience themselves with just and equal Laws and Customs. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 43 In places that are eminently convenienced for quick getting out. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 July 4/2 A general rule that the public are not to be convenienced unless they pay for it. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1413v.1630
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