convented

English

Verb

convented

  1. simple past tense and past participle of convent

Adjective

convented (comparative more convented, superlative most convented)

  1. (obsolete) Brought together, convened.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:
      , II.3.3:
      Socrates in a fair, seeing so many things bought and sold, such a multitude of people convented to that purpose, exclaimed forthwith, “O ye gods, what a sight of things do not I want!”
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