convellent

English

Etymology

From Latin convellēns, present participle of convellō. See convulse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kənˈvɛlənt/

Adjective

convellent (comparative more convellent, superlative most convellent)

1. (obsolete) Tending to tear or pull up.
   • 1845, Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman, The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man:

     The ends of the fragment […] will not yield to the convellent force.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “convellent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

convellent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of convellō