† covenablyadv.
Obsolete.
In a suitable, proper, or convenient manner; fitly; appropriately; seasonably, opportunely; conveniently.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > convenience > [adverb]
gainlyc1175
covenablyc1384
goodlyc1405
commodiously1420
handsomely1538
gainfully1549
conveniently1633
cleverly1697
commodely1749
commody1766
handily1793
accommodatingly1796
the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adverb]
wellOE
tidily1340
avenantlya1375
covenablyc1384
featlya1400
propera1400
queema1400
congruelyc1400
conably1411
cordingc1420
convenablyc1430
competentlyc1440
fitc1440
accordantlyc1443
accordinglyc1443
conveniently1447
at pointc1485
congruentlya1529
appliablyc1530
afferandly1536
suitingly1540
aptly1548
answerably1549
fitlyc1550
agreeingly1563
suitable1584
not unfitly1586
aptitudinallyc1600
handsome1600
sortfully1606
sortably1607
congruouslya1620
accommodately1623
adaptlya1648
inabusivelya1677
suitably1681
agreeably1753
appropriately1795
suitly1913
righteous1948
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark xiv. 11 And he souȝte how he schulde bitraye him couenably [L. opportune].
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 303 Gades is couenableliche first i-sette among þe ylondes of þe greet see.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 5 A good medicine couenably yeuen to them that be seke.
1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 175 If a daughter be couenably married by him, this is a sufficient aduancement.
1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws 3 In every church..a secular person was to be ordained vicar perpetual, and covenably endowed. Cf. Act 4 Hen. IV. c. xii.]
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adv.c1384- to make a round
- to make a rout
- to make a rout about
- to make a rout etc
- to make a rout over
- to make a row
- to make a run for it
- to make a run of it
- to make a sally
- to make a saver
- to make a saving game of
- to make a saving game of it
- to make a scene
- to make a scene of
- to make a scene of it
- to make a score off one's own bat
- to make a secret of
- to make a seth(e
- to make a shaft or a bolt of it
- to make a shift
- to make a shot
- to make a show
- to make a show of
- to make a show of oneself
- to make a showing of