convive
Americannoun
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convives
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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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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 William Makepeace Thackeray
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 William Shakespeare
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 Nathaniel Greene
The clatter of some late convive seating himself also caused him to turn his head.
From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Richard Savage
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 Charles James Lever
The juge, and the garde, and the bachelor chemist, and the chief of the gendarmerie, and all the rest of the customary convives, dribbled in one by one, and exchanged the customary salutations.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
Ever since, my convives, apprised of this mortal frailty of mine, time their remarks more prudently, and allow me to take alternately a joke and a morsel.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Among the convives were Cuvier, Villemain, Daru, and several others who are almost as well known to science and letters.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
A luxurious dinner was ordered, and the silent man was busied scanning the convives when Emil Einstein, cautiously entering without haste, furtively regarded all the diners.
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Richard Savage
Such was the fortune of him who was one, and, I repeat it, the pleasantest of our convives.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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