Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as convivial.
  • noun A guest.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Relating to a feast or festivity; convivial.

Etymologies

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Latin convivalis. See convive.

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Examples

  • Smith tells us that Quin and Hayman were inseparable friends, and so convival, that they seldom parted till daylight.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • Young Gainsborough, who spent three years amid the works of the painters in St. Martin's-lane, Hayman, and Cipriani, who were all eminently convival, were, in all probability, frequenters of Slaughter's.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • I really couldn't tell you whether that's true, though it sounds mildly plausible and A-OK by me, not being the world's biggest fan of "convival elites."

    Run Matt Welch 2010

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  • Is this the same as convivial, perchance?

    August 4, 2008