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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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
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
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
The clash of glasses and shouts of a gay crowd of military convives rose up in a merry chorus within.
From A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story by Richard Savage
The covers were laid, and every preparation was made within the railing for the reception of the convives.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
Most agreeable dinner here yesterday; the convives were: Dr. Lushington, Mr. Andrews; Mrs. Andrews at the last sent a regret—ill in bed with a headache.
From The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Augustus J. C. Hare
Two rows of men clad in dark dresses, a solitary female at the head of the table, or, if fortunate, with a supporter of the same sex near her, invariably composed the convives.
From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper
Bad as was the fare on that abandoned breakfast-table, it must, nevertheless, have been superior to that usually partaken of by the convives who had taken the place of the fugitive king and princes.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
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