1necessary:
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
)
necessarium: (L) covenable
ii 77
2suitable, fitting:
(
s.xii1;
MS: 1155-60
)
E il serat Sire [...] eslievement cuvenable en anguisse
(Latin: elevatio opportuna in angustia)
11.IX.9
(
1121-35;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
E cuvenable estait Que pur nus
(God) se dureit
71
(
1310
)
i[l] li tendi covenable mariage saunz disparagacion
Ed II iv 8
(
1385-96;
MS: c.1400
)
vous hantez putaynes […] et aultres plusieurs ordes choses, que ne sont pas covenables
409
♦
valid, proper:
(
MS: c.1275
)
Les queus vint e quatre
(=jurymen) deivent a la covenable summunse le devantdit mere venir
26.4
(
1333
)
deus mil marchez de terre par covenable estent
447
♦
qualified, competent:
(
MS: s.xiii1
)
militum apti: (D) chivalurs cu[v]enables
247.69
♦
proper, up to standard:
(
1358
)
Et qe nul qi claime estre del dit mestier d’orfeverie en la dite citee ne teigne shope, forsqe en Chepe qe homme puisse veer qe lour overages soient bones et covenables
68
♦
attractive:
(
s.xii1/3;
MS: s.xiii2
)
Cil qui la porte est bien parlable E amoros e covenable
220.498
(
1141;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Beaus par esgard[e]ure, De vut resplendissable E forment covenable
814
(
1206-15;
MS: s.xiii1/4
)
Engletere [...] ki est [...] large de bois e de riveres, e de veneisuns e de oiseals covenable
1.1
♦
of good quality, choice:
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: s.xiv1/3
)
ceus qi vendent […] cervoise […] pur covenable e seine
40
(
1354
)
mettre dessus le paner une demonstrance de covenable pesshoun et desouth […] mettre pesshoun descovenable
477
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