covenable

Middle English

Etymology

Old French covenable.

Adjective

covenable

1. fit; proper; suitable
   • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Mark 6:21, page 103:

     a covenable day

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• covenableness

 

References

• “covenable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Old French

Etymology

covenir +‎ -able

Adjective

covenable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular covenable)

1. appropriate; fitting