conventn.

/ˈkɒnvənt/

Forms: α. Middle English–1600s covent, (Middle English kuuent), Middle English–1500s covente, Middle English couvent; β. 1500s– convent.

Etymology: Middle English < Anglo-Norman covent , cuvent , couvent = Old French convent , modern French couvent = Provençal covent , Catalan couvent , Spanish convento , Italian convento < Latin conventum (u- stem) assembly, company, < convenīre to come together, convene v. In Old French usually spelt convent, but already in 16th cent. pronounced couvent, to which the spelling was conformed in the Academy's Dict. after the first ed. In England on the contrary the latinized spelling convent was introduced c1550, and by c1650 superseded the Middle English form; the latter remains in Covent Garden. Cotgrave 1611 has ‘convent, a couent’; modern French dictionaries have couvent, a convent.

†1.

a. An assemblage or gathering of persons; a number met together for some common purpose; an assembly, meeting, convention, congregation.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting

synagoguea1300

councilc1340

collect1382

convent1382

convocation1387

samingc1400

advocationa1425

meetingc1425

steven1481

congress1528

concion1533

conference1575

collection1609

congression1611

divan1619

rendezvous1628

comitia1631

society1712

majlis1821

get-up1826

agora1886

α.

1382 J. Wyclif Psalms lxiii. 3 [lxiv. 2] Thou hast defendid me fro the couent of warieris.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) James ii. 2 If ther shal entre in to ȝoure couent, or gedering to gydere, a man, etc.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18349 Þan cried dauid wit steuen strang..þan ansuerd all þat clene couent.

1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. v The courte..is a couente of peple that vnder fayntyse of Comyn wele assemble hem to gydre.

1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1611) 27 As for your Councell of Trident, God wot, it was a silly Couent.

1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 7 A classical Dictator amongst the Covent.

β. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 47 Throughe the recours and convents of merchants.1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 19 The King fearing some manslaughter would grow vpon these amorous conuents, and that Rosamond like a second Helena would cause the ruine of Thessalie.1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 352 In the convent of other Witches.1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. ix. 246 We believe that Convent of Trent to have been..no lawfull Councel.

†b. transferred of things. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 16 As touchyng the conuent of Veynes and Arteries, within the inner scope..of the head.

†2. A company; spec. the company of the twelve apostles; cf. 3b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun]

ferec975

flockOE

gingc1175

rout?c1225

companyc1300

fellowshipc1300

covinc1330

eschelec1330

tripc1330

fellowred1340

choira1382

head1381

glub1382

partya1387

peoplec1390

conventc1426

an abominable of monksa1450

body1453

carol1483

band1490

compernagea1500

consorce1512

congregationa1530

corporationa1535

corpse1534

chore1572

society1572

crew1578

string1579

consort1584

troop1584

tribe1609

squadron1617

bunch1622

core1622

lag1624

studa1625

brigadea1649

platoon1711

cohort1719

lot1725

corps1754

loo1764

squad1786

brotherhood1820

companionhood1825

troupe1825

crowd1840

companionship1842

group1845

that ilk1845

set-out1854

layout1869

confraternity1872

show1901

crush1904

we1927

familia1933

shower1936

c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 20 When He dyd wasche hem, And knelud louly apon His knen to-fore His blessid couent.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. ZZZii^v The pore vnlerned fysshers, Petre, Johan, Andrewe, & Iames..and the residewe of that holy couent.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. evi^v His couent the holy apostles.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John f. 105^v Neuer one of his couente or felowship hath perished excepte one.

a. A company of men or women living together in the discipline of a religious order and under one superior; a body of monks, friars, or nuns forming one local community.Often applied to the brethren or sisters exclusively of the superior.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > collectively

religious?c1225

conventc1290

collegec1380

religion1487

religioustyc1530

monkery1549

settlement1708

community1728

familia1869

α.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 71/25 Seint Wolston..was imaked prior of þat hous..his Couent he wuste swyþe wel and to alle guodnesse hem drouȝ.

c1300 St. Brandan 267 Tho seȝe hi come a fair covent, and a croice to~fore hem bere.

c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale 185 Thabbot with his couent hath sped him for to burie him ful fast.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xx. 210 Euery day, whan the covent of this Abbeye hath eten.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xv. sig. e.vi^v Saynt Audry than abbesse, toke her holy couent And mette the sayd kynge.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 19.

1636 W. Prynne Remonstr. against Shipmoney 7 The Abbot without the Covent, the Master of the Colledge without the Fellowes.

a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 466 This..was the answer of the Covent.

β. 1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 36 He immediately called the Convent together.

†b. A company of twelve (or, including the superior, thirteen) ‘religious’ persons, whether constituting a separate community or a section of a larger one. Obsolete.The number is believed to refer to the company of the Apostles with their Master (see sense 2), and was apparently of later introduction into conventual organization. Thorne (14th cent.) says of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, ‘Anno Domini mcxlvi. iste Hugo reparavit antiquum numerum monachorum istius monasterii, et erant lx monachi professi præter abbatem, hoc est, quinque conventus in universo’ ( Decem Scriptores 1652, col. 1807).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > collectively > of twelve or thirteen persons

conventc1290

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 286/304 A frere prechur of boloygne..hadde a couent of freres..his twelf freres bi-fore him comen, him-seolf was þe þretteþe.

c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Harl.) 550 And bring me xij freres wit ȝe why For þrettene is a couent as I gesse [so 4 texts: Ellesmere & Lansd. For twelue is a Couent as I gesse].

1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. xxxv. 274 All..houses of religion..whereof the number in any one house is or of late hath been less than a covent, that is to say, under 13 persons.

a. An institution founded for the living together of a number of ‘religious’ persons, monks, friars, nuns, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation

celllOE

convent?c1225

monasterya1425

cœnobya1475

monks1556

cœnobium1817

reclusory1821

reclusery1835

α.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 12 Þus hit is incouent.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 207 Riȝt so be religioun it roileþ and steruiþ, Þat out of couent and cloistre coueiten to libben.

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxxvii. f. lxxxxvii^v Abbeys & pryoryes & other houses that haue colage & couent.

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 95 The Covent of Charity of the Canons regular at Venice.

1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 2 He intreated the Fathers..to Receive him into their Covent.

β. a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 5 Go immediately and putt himselfe in a Conventt.1711 J. Swift Argum. abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 173 Convents..which are so many Retreats for the Speculative, the Melancholy, the Proud, the Silent, the Politick and the Morose.1865 Morning Star 4 Aug. During the present week a second convent of nuns has been established in the suburbs of York.1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 185 Voltaire often compared the system of life at Berlin..to that of a convent, half military, half literary.

b. As a translation of Germ. kloster, the name of some Lutheran ecclesiastical corporations, retaining the property and some features of the constitution of pre-Reformation convents.

ΚΠ

1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. VI. 343 The convent consists of a Lutheran abbot, a prior, and four conventuals.

5. The building or set of buildings occupied by such a religious community.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun]

minstereOE

monklifeeOE

clausterc1000

abbotricOE

house?a1160

anchor-house?c1225

religion?c1225

abbeyc1300

nunneryc1300

house (also abbey) of religiona1325

nunryc1325

closterc1330

cloister1340

monasterya1425

monk-house?c1475

friars1479

convent1528

guild1546

prioressy1575

abbey-stead1620

minchery1710

reclusory1821

akhara1838

house of piety1838

kloster1844

α.

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. f iij^v Fryers..in coventis whereas they are, Thycke mantels of fryse they weare.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 180 Virgins who neuer past the bounds of their Couents.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 34 The building of Churches, Cloysters, and Covents.

β. 1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. sig. Avj The places..were called Monasteries, Convents, or Cloisters.1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 104 The white towers of a convent peeped out from among the thick mountain foliage.1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 43 Out of his convent of gray stone..Walked the Monk Felix.

6. In senses 4, 5 the word is often popularly restricted to a convent of women, a nunnery, a convent of men being distinguished as a monastery; but this is not warranted by historical usage.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation > for women only

convent1795

canonry1877

1795 J. Trusler Words esteemed Synonymous II. 66 Cloister is a general term..Convent is..a religious house for nuns, and monastery for monks or friars.

1814 Visct. S. de Redcliffe in S. Lane-Poole Life Ld. S. de Redcliffe (1888) I. 204 Tell me whether I am right in suspecting that San Lucar is a convent, and not a monastery.

1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. v. 213 No woman could obtain permission to come into the monastery of the men; none of the men to come into the convent of the women.

7. Applied to a Buddhist or other non-Christian monastic institution: cf. monastery n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation > Buddhist or non-Christian

convent1598

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 115 Their Priests..liue an hundreth or two hundreth of them together in one cloister or couent.

1836 Penny Cycl. V. 532/1 Convents for priests, as well as nunneries, exist in all countries where Buddhism has been introduced.

†8. An administrative division of a province. Obsolete. rare. [compare medieval Latin conventus ‘districtus, diœcesis episcopi’ (Du Cange).]

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun]

purprisea1275

member?a1425

precinct1447

lordshipa1450

captainate1593

region1593

partiality1601

division1640

peopledom1657

convent1658

district1667

mastership1707

superintendency1798

area1849

1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 594 Pontus..being added to Galatia, and divided into eleven Convents, was called by the name of Bithynia.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in senses 3 – 5).

convent-cell n.

ΚΠ

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. vi. 228 The cheerless convent-cell.

convent-chanting n.

ΚΠ

1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 29 Convent-chanting which the child Hears.

convent-prayer n.

convent-roof n.

ΚΠ

1837 Ld. Tennyson St. Agnes in Keepsake 217 Deep on the convent roofs the snows Are sparkling to the moon.

convent-seal n.

ΚΠ

1538–9 Instruct. Hen. VIII Visit. Monasteries (1886) 14 Whether the Covent-seal of this House be surely and safely kept.

convent tower n.

ΚΠ

1837 Ld. Tennyson St. Agnes in Keepsake 217 The shadows of the convent towers.

convent-crowned adj.

ΚΠ

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. iv. xii. 337 The convent-crowned height.

convent-founding adj.

ΚΠ

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. v. i. 147 This convent-founding, convent-ruling business.

C2.

convent-bred adj. educated in a convent or nunnery.

ΚΠ

1886 Q. Rev. Apr. 529 Convent-bred demoiselles.

† convent-loaf n. Obsolete ? same as chapter-bread.

ΚΠ

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 210/1 Covent lofe, miche [ Cotgr., Miche..a fine Manchet, or, particularly, that kind of Manchet which is otherwise tearmed, Pain de chapitre].

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† conventv.

/kənˈvɛnt/

Etymology: < Latin convent- participial stem of convenīre to come together, convene v.: compare prevent.

Obsolete exc. Historical.

1. intransitive. To come together, assemble, meet; = convene v. 1; to enter into a convention.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > meet or assemble for common purpose [verb (intransitive)]

to come togetherOE

meetc1425

convene1429

convent1544

convocate1685

1544 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) II. 402 The lords convented in the fratre of the said graie ffreers.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 78/1 Unneth the Christians could safely conuent in their own houses.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 208/2 Crescentius with the people and Clergy, conuenting against the sayd Gregory: set vp pope John the xviij.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. liii. 241 And each one to a diuers Sect conuents.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxv. 180 Many Beasts did often conuent together at some Riuer to drinke.

a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 50 The Trees convented to chuse them a King.

2. transitive. To cause to come together; to assemble (persons or a body); = convene v. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon > together

summonc1275

indict1538

accerse1548

convocate?1553

convent1569

convene1596

convoke1598

recall1648

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 56 The king..conuentyng hys nobles and Clarkes together.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads ii. 8 Command him to convent His whole host arm'd before these towers.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 54.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 12 How the Parliament shall be summoned and convented by the Lords, Commons, and great Officers of the Realme themselves.

a. To cause (persons) to come or appear; to call to a meeting or interview, to summon.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon

lathec900

hightOE

clepec1000

ofclepeOE

ofsendOE

warna1250

callc1300

summonc1300

incalla1340

upcallc1340

summonda1400

becallc1400

ofgredec1400

require1418

assummonc1450

accitec1475

provoke1477

convey1483

mand1483

whistle1486

vocatec1494

wishc1515

to call up1530

citea1533

convent1540

convocate1542

prorogate1543

accersit1548

whistle for1560

advocatea1575

citate1581

evocate1639

demand1650

to warn in1654

summons1694

invoke1697

to send for1744

to turn up1752

requisition1800

whip1857

1540–1 T. Elyot Image Govt. (1556) 157 For that cause onely [he] had often times convented him whan he repayred into that country.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 5 He convented Q. Catullus before the body of the people to receive their order.

1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 24 I must yet convent your honesty somewhat further.

a1659 F. Osborne Ess. (1673) i. 553 The King..upon his arrival convented the Boy.

b. spec. To summon before a judge or tribunal, for trial or examination.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [verb (transitive)] > summon or issue summons against

cravec1000

summonc1300

summonda1400

convenec1425

cite1438

accitec1475

process1493

convent1538

convent1548

ascite1563

clepe and call1597

exact1607

sist1641

summons1659

1538 A. Fitzherbert Newe Bk. Justyces Peas 139 b The..partie greved may convent the partie so offendinge before his ordinarie or other judge.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C8 The great daye of the Lorde, when all flesh shall be conuented before the tribunall seate of God.

1656 W. Prynne Short Demurrer to Jewes Remitter 37 A certain English Knight decreed to convent a Jew..before the Judges.

1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft xv. 193 She was convented before Mr. Thomas Wotton.

c. With the judge or tribunal understood: To summon, to cite; to summon on a charge of.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [verb (transitive)] > summon or issue summons against

cravec1000

summonc1300

summonda1400

convenec1425

cite1438

accitec1475

process1493

convent1538

convent1548

ascite1563

clepe and call1597

exact1607

sist1641

summons1659

1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 13 §13 The Party..may and shall be convented and sued in the King's Ecclesiastical Court.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 295 b The Emperour is convented of heresie.

1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 66 The Commons have convented Flood, examyned him, and sentenced him.

1854 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. III. xxvi. 529 Meantime the owner and master of the ship were convented and forced to promise not to land the tea.

†4. ? To agree or covenant to give: cf. convention n., and covenant. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1587 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 145 Whereas I convented in mariage with my doughter Meryall the some of 300l., whereof my sonne-in-lawe William Wycliffe, hir husband, hath allready receved 200l.

5. In the following taken by some to mean ‘To be convenient, fit, suit’ (= convene v. 6); but sense 3 ‘To summon, call together’, is possible. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 378 When that is knowne, and golden time conuents A solemne Combination shall be made Of our deere soules.

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单词	convent
释义	conventn. /ˈkɒnvənt/ Forms: α. Middle English–1600s covent, (Middle English kuuent), Middle English–1500s covente, Middle English couvent; β. 1500s– convent. Etymology: Middle English < Anglo-Norman covent , cuvent , couvent = Old French convent , modern French couvent = Provençal covent , Catalan couvent , Spanish convento , Italian convento < Latin conventum (u- stem) assembly, company, < convenīre to come together, convene v. In Old French usually spelt convent, but already in 16th cent. pronounced couvent, to which the spelling was conformed in the Academy's Dict. after the first ed. In England on the contrary the latinized spelling convent was introduced c1550, and by c1650 superseded the Middle English form; the latter remains in Covent Garden. Cotgrave 1611 has ‘convent, a couent’; modern French dictionaries have couvent, a convent. †1. a. An assemblage or gathering of persons; a number met together for some common purpose; an assembly, meeting, convention, congregation. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting synagoguea1300 councilc1340 collect1382 convent1382 convocation1387 samingc1400 advocationa1425 meetingc1425 steven1481 congress1528 concion1533 conference1575 collection1609 congression1611 divan1619 rendezvous1628 comitia1631 society1712 majlis1821 get-up1826 agora1886 α. 1382 J. Wyclif Psalms lxiii. 3 [lxiv. 2] Thou hast defendid me fro the couent of warieris. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) James ii. 2 If ther shal entre in to ȝoure couent, or gedering to gydere, a man, etc. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18349 Þan cried dauid wit steuen strang..þan ansuerd all þat clene couent. 1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. v The courte..is a couente of peple that vnder fayntyse of Comyn wele assemble hem to gydre. 1565 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1611) 27 As for your Councell of Trident, God wot, it was a silly Couent. 1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 7 A classical Dictator amongst the Covent. β. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 47 Throughe the recours and convents of merchants.1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 19 The King fearing some manslaughter would grow vpon these amorous conuents, and that Rosamond like a second Helena would cause the ruine of Thessalie.1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 352 In the convent of other Witches.1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. ix. 246 We believe that Convent of Trent to have been..no lawfull Councel. †b. transferred of things. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 16 As touchyng the conuent of Veynes and Arteries, within the inner scope..of the head. †2. A company; spec. the company of the twelve apostles; cf. 3b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a company or body of persons > [noun] ferec975 flockOE gingc1175 rout?c1225 companyc1300 fellowshipc1300 covinc1330 eschelec1330 tripc1330 fellowred1340 choira1382 head1381 glub1382 partya1387 peoplec1390 conventc1426 an abominable of monksa1450 body1453 carol1483 band1490 compernagea1500 consorce1512 congregationa1530 corporationa1535 corpse1534 chore1572 society1572 crew1578 string1579 consort1584 troop1584 tribe1609 squadron1617 bunch1622 core1622 lag1624 studa1625 brigadea1649 platoon1711 cohort1719 lot1725 corps1754 loo1764 squad1786 brotherhood1820 companionhood1825 troupe1825 crowd1840 companionship1842 group1845 that ilk1845 set-out1854 layout1869 confraternity1872 show1901 crush1904 we1927 familia1933 shower1936 c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 20 When He dyd wasche hem, And knelud louly apon His knen to-fore His blessid couent. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. ZZZii^v The pore vnlerned fysshers, Petre, Johan, Andrewe, & Iames..and the residewe of that holy couent. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. evi^v His couent the holy apostles. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John f. 105^v Neuer one of his couente or felowship hath perished excepte one. 3. a. A company of men or women living together in the discipline of a religious order and under one superior; a body of monks, friars, or nuns forming one local community.Often applied to the brethren or sisters exclusively of the superior. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > collectively religious?c1225 conventc1290 collegec1380 religion1487 religioustyc1530 monkery1549 settlement1708 community1728 familia1869 α. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 71/25 Seint Wolston..was imaked prior of þat hous..his Couent he wuste swyþe wel and to alle guodnesse hem drouȝ. c1300 St. Brandan 267 Tho seȝe hi come a fair covent, and a croice to~fore hem bere. c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Tale 185 Thabbot with his couent hath sped him for to burie him ful fast. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xx. 210 Euery day, whan the covent of this Abbeye hath eten. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xv. sig. e.vi^v Saynt Audry than abbesse, toke her holy couent And mette the sayd kynge. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iv. ii. 19. 1636 W. Prynne Remonstr. against Shipmoney 7 The Abbot without the Covent, the Master of the Colledge without the Fellowes. a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 466 This..was the answer of the Covent. β. 1689 Bp. G. Burnet Tracts I. 36 He immediately called the Convent together. †b. A company of twelve (or, including the superior, thirteen) ‘religious’ persons, whether constituting a separate community or a section of a larger one. Obsolete.The number is believed to refer to the company of the Apostles with their Master (see sense 2), and was apparently of later introduction into conventual organization. Thorne (14th cent.) says of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, ‘Anno Domini mcxlvi. iste Hugo reparavit antiquum numerum monachorum istius monasterii, et erant lx monachi professi præter abbatem, hoc est, quinque conventus in universo’ ( Decem Scriptores 1652, col. 1807). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > collectively > of twelve or thirteen persons conventc1290 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 286/304 A frere prechur of boloygne..hadde a couent of freres..his twelf freres bi-fore him comen, him-seolf was þe þretteþe. c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale (Harl.) 550 And bring me xij freres wit ȝe why For þrettene is a couent as I gesse [so 4 texts: Ellesmere & Lansd. For twelue is a Couent as I gesse]. 1536 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. xxxv. 274 All..houses of religion..whereof the number in any one house is or of late hath been less than a covent, that is to say, under 13 persons. 4. a. An institution founded for the living together of a number of ‘religious’ persons, monks, friars, nuns, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation celllOE convent?c1225 monasterya1425 cœnobya1475 monks1556 cœnobium1817 reclusory1821 reclusery1835 α. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 12 Þus hit is incouent. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 207 Riȝt so be religioun it roileþ and steruiþ, Þat out of couent and cloistre coueiten to libben. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xxxvii. f. lxxxxvii^v Abbeys & pryoryes & other houses that haue colage & couent. 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 95 The Covent of Charity of the Canons regular at Venice. 1679 tr. Trag. Hist. Jetzer 2 He intreated the Fathers..to Receive him into their Covent. β. a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 5 Go immediately and putt himselfe in a Conventt.1711 J. Swift Argum. abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 173 Convents..which are so many Retreats for the Speculative, the Melancholy, the Proud, the Silent, the Politick and the Morose.1865 Morning Star 4 Aug. During the present week a second convent of nuns has been established in the suburbs of York.1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 185 Voltaire often compared the system of life at Berlin..to that of a convent, half military, half literary. b. As a translation of Germ. kloster, the name of some Lutheran ecclesiastical corporations, retaining the property and some features of the constitution of pre-Reformation convents. ΚΠ 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. VI. 343 The convent consists of a Lutheran abbot, a prior, and four conventuals. 5. The building or set of buildings occupied by such a religious community. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun] minstereOE monklifeeOE clausterc1000 abbotricOE house?a1160 anchor-house?c1225 religion?c1225 abbeyc1300 nunneryc1300 house (also abbey) of religiona1325 nunryc1325 closterc1330 cloister1340 monasterya1425 monk-house?c1475 friars1479 convent1528 guild1546 prioressy1575 abbey-stead1620 minchery1710 reclusory1821 akhara1838 house of piety1838 kloster1844 α. 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. f iij^v Fryers..in coventis whereas they are, Thycke mantels of fryse they weare. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 180 Virgins who neuer past the bounds of their Couents. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 34 The building of Churches, Cloysters, and Covents. β. 1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. sig. Avj The places..were called Monasteries, Convents, or Cloisters.1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 104 The white towers of a convent peeped out from among the thick mountain foliage.1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 43 Out of his convent of gray stone..Walked the Monk Felix. 6. In senses 4, 5 the word is often popularly restricted to a convent of women, a nunnery, a convent of men being distinguished as a monastery; but this is not warranted by historical usage. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation > for women only convent1795 canonry1877 1795 J. Trusler Words esteemed Synonymous II. 66 Cloister is a general term..Convent is..a religious house for nuns, and monastery for monks or friars. 1814 Visct. S. de Redcliffe in S. Lane-Poole Life Ld. S. de Redcliffe (1888) I. 204 Tell me whether I am right in suspecting that San Lucar is a convent, and not a monastery. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. v. 213 No woman could obtain permission to come into the monastery of the men; none of the men to come into the convent of the women. 7. Applied to a Buddhist or other non-Christian monastic institution: cf. monastery n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation > Buddhist or non-Christian convent1598 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 115 Their Priests..liue an hundreth or two hundreth of them together in one cloister or couent. 1836 Penny Cycl. V. 532/1 Convents for priests, as well as nunneries, exist in all countries where Buddhism has been introduced. †8. An administrative division of a province. Obsolete. rare. [compare medieval Latin conventus ‘districtus, diœcesis episcopi’ (Du Cange).] ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] purprisea1275 member?a1425 precinct1447 lordshipa1450 captainate1593 region1593 partiality1601 division1640 peopledom1657 convent1658 district1667 mastership1707 superintendency1798 area1849 1658 tr. J. Ussher Ann. World 594 Pontus..being added to Galatia, and divided into eleven Convents, was called by the name of Bithynia. Compounds C1. General attributive (in senses 3 – 5). a. convent-cell n. ΚΠ 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles vi. vi. 228 The cheerless convent-cell. convent-chanting n. ΚΠ 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 29 Convent-chanting which the child Hears. convent-prayer n. convent-roof n. ΚΠ 1837 Ld. Tennyson St. Agnes in Keepsake 217 Deep on the convent roofs the snows Are sparkling to the moon. convent-seal n. ΚΠ 1538–9 Instruct. Hen. VIII Visit. Monasteries (1886) 14 Whether the Covent-seal of this House be surely and safely kept. convent tower n. ΚΠ 1837 Ld. Tennyson St. Agnes in Keepsake 217 The shadows of the convent towers. b. convent-crowned adj. ΚΠ 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. iv. xii. 337 The convent-crowned height. convent-founding adj. ΚΠ 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics I. v. i. 147 This convent-founding, convent-ruling business. C2. convent-bred adj. educated in a convent or nunnery. ΚΠ 1886 Q. Rev. Apr. 529 Convent-bred demoiselles. † convent-loaf n. Obsolete ? same as chapter-bread. ΚΠ 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 210/1 Covent lofe, miche [ Cotgr., Miche..a fine Manchet, or, particularly, that kind of Manchet which is otherwise tearmed, Pain de chapitre]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † conventv. /kənˈvɛnt/ Etymology: < Latin convent- participial stem of convenīre to come together, convene v.: compare prevent. Obsolete exc. Historical. 1. intransitive. To come together, assemble, meet; = convene v. 1; to enter into a convention. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > meet or assemble for common purpose [verb (intransitive)] to come togetherOE meetc1425 convene1429 convent1544 convocate1685 1544 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) II. 402 The lords convented in the fratre of the said graie ffreers. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 78/1 Unneth the Christians could safely conuent in their own houses. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 208/2 Crescentius with the people and Clergy, conuenting against the sayd Gregory: set vp pope John the xviij. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. liii. 241 And each one to a diuers Sect conuents. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxv. 180 Many Beasts did often conuent together at some Riuer to drinke. a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 50 The Trees convented to chuse them a King. 2. transitive. To cause to come together; to assemble (persons or a body); = convene v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon > together summonc1275 indict1538 accerse1548 convocate?1553 convent1569 convene1596 convoke1598 recall1648 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 56 The king..conuentyng hys nobles and Clarkes together. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads ii. 8 Command him to convent His whole host arm'd before these towers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 54. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. i. 12 How the Parliament shall be summoned and convented by the Lords, Commons, and great Officers of the Realme themselves. 3. a. To cause (persons) to come or appear; to call to a meeting or interview, to summon. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > command [verb (transitive)] > summon lathec900 hightOE clepec1000 ofclepeOE ofsendOE warna1250 callc1300 summonc1300 incalla1340 upcallc1340 summonda1400 becallc1400 ofgredec1400 require1418 assummonc1450 accitec1475 provoke1477 convey1483 mand1483 whistle1486 vocatec1494 wishc1515 to call up1530 citea1533 convent1540 convocate1542 prorogate1543 accersit1548 whistle for1560 advocatea1575 citate1581 evocate1639 demand1650 to warn in1654 summons1694 invoke1697 to send for1744 to turn up1752 requisition1800 whip1857 1540–1 T. Elyot Image Govt. (1556) 157 For that cause onely [he] had often times convented him whan he repayred into that country. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 5 He convented Q. Catullus before the body of the people to receive their order. 1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 24 I must yet convent your honesty somewhat further. a1659 F. Osborne Ess. (1673) i. 553 The King..upon his arrival convented the Boy. b. spec. To summon before a judge or tribunal, for trial or examination. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [verb (transitive)] > summon or issue summons against cravec1000 summonc1300 summonda1400 convenec1425 cite1438 accitec1475 process1493 convent1538 convent1548 ascite1563 clepe and call1597 exact1607 sist1641 summons1659 1538 A. Fitzherbert Newe Bk. Justyces Peas 139 b The..partie greved may convent the partie so offendinge before his ordinarie or other judge. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C8 The great daye of the Lorde, when all flesh shall be conuented before the tribunall seate of God. 1656 W. Prynne Short Demurrer to Jewes Remitter 37 A certain English Knight decreed to convent a Jew..before the Judges. 1718 F. Hutchinson Hist. Ess. conc. Witchcraft xv. 193 She was convented before Mr. Thomas Wotton. c. With the judge or tribunal understood: To summon, to cite; to summon on a charge of. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [verb (transitive)] > summon or issue summons against cravec1000 summonc1300 summonda1400 convenec1425 cite1438 accitec1475 process1493 convent1538 convent1548 ascite1563 clepe and call1597 exact1607 sist1641 summons1659 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 13 §13 The Party..may and shall be convented and sued in the King's Ecclesiastical Court. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 295 b The Emperour is convented of heresie. 1621 H. Elsynge Notes Deb. House of Lords (1870) 66 The Commons have convented Flood, examyned him, and sentenced him. 1854 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. III. xxvi. 529 Meantime the owner and master of the ship were convented and forced to promise not to land the tea. †4. ? To agree or covenant to give: cf. convention n., and covenant. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1587 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 145 Whereas I convented in mariage with my doughter Meryall the some of 300l., whereof my sonne-in-lawe William Wycliffe, hir husband, hath allready receved 200l. 5. In the following taken by some to mean ‘To be convenient, fit, suit’ (= convene v. 6); but sense 3 ‘To summon, call together’, is possible. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 378 When that is knowne, and golden time conuents A solemne Combination shall be made Of our deere soules. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.?c1225v.1538
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