convive
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of convive
1640–50; < French < Latin convīva table-companion, guest, equivalent to con- con- + -vīva, derivative of vīvere to live. See vital
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First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent; There in the full convive we; afterwards, As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall Concur together, severally entreat him.
From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William
There was a French secretary of legation for Berne, a most pleasant convive; and the Austrian general was equally amusing.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
These thoughts made the field-marshal unusually gay and talkative, and the regent protested that Munnich had never been a more agreeable convive than precisely to-day.
From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel
It was impossible, unless the convive sat as a centre-piece in the middle, to put another guest at that table.
From A Little Dinner at Timmin's by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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