单词 | conventical |
释义 | conˈventical, a. rare. Also erron. -ticle. [f. L. convent-us + -ic + -al1.] 1. Of or pertaining to a convent, conventual. ‘Conventical prior: the same as an abbot’ (Ogilvie).
1765Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. xxi, The gardener..had mortgaged a month of his conventical wages in a borachio or leathern cask of wine. 1784Unfort. Sensibility II. 107 If hereafter I should resolve upon a conventicle life. 2. Of or pertaining to a conventicle.
1872J. H. Newman Disc. & Arguments 257 Sir Robert [Peel] breaks out into almost conventical eloquence. Hence conˈventically adv.
1840New Monthly Mag. LX. 321, ‘I was reading my blessed bible’..said Tim, looking conventically. |

英语词典包含277258条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。
相关内容11:
相关热词搜索:conventical英英词典英英释义英语词汇意思用法释义英语