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▪ I. † convive, n.1 Obs. rare.
[a. OF. convive, ad. L. convīv-ium feast.]
A feast, banquet.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 30/4 O precious feste and convyve! 1512Helyas xxiii. in Thoms E. Pr. Rom. (1827) II. 77 Convives, daunces and sports were..reysed in the palays.
▪ II. ‖ convive, n.2|kɔ̃viv, ˈkɒnvaɪv|
[a. mod.F. convive (not in Cotgr. 1611), ad. L. convīva fellow-feaster, f. convīvĕre to live together with. The 17th c. use was perh. directly from L.; there is app. a break between this and modern use, in which it is usually printed in italics as French.]
1. One who feasts with others; a fellow-banqueter, table-companion, mess-mate.
1648J. Beaumont Psyche x. 211 (R.) A feast, which though with pleasures complement The ravish'd convives tongues it courted; yet, etc. 1651Fuller Abel Rediv. (1867) I. 114 But idiots also his convives, had their share. 1658J. Harrington Prerog. Pop. Govt. ii. v. (1700) 367 The Christians in these times, much after the manner of the Lacedemonian Convives, us'd to eat in public and together. 1820–1R. K. Porter Trav. Georgia in Repository No. 80. 111 Preserves, fruits, dried sweetmeats..engage the fair convives for some time. 1863G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators II. 148 ‘What now?’ said he, ‘my old convive and boon companion’.
2. (See quot.)
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1862) II. 218 We next come to the consideration of convives, or those [women] who live in the same house with a number of others.
▪ III. † conˈvive, v. Obs. rare.
[f. prec. n. (or L. convīvĕre, -vīvārī).]
intr. To feast together.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. v. 272 All you Peeres of Greece go to my Tent, There in the full conuiue we [Fol. you]. |