Index of English words, starting with "co"

(1) - Convent (v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
(2) - Convent (v. i.) To be convenient; to serve.
(3) - Convent (v. i.) To meet together; to concur.
(4) - Convent (v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
(5) - Convent (v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
(6) - Convent (v. i.) A coming together; a meeting.

(1) - Conventicle (n.) An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.
(2) - Conventicle (n.) A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.

(1) - Conventicler (n.) One who supports or frequents conventicles.

(1) - Convention (v. i.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
(2) - Convention (v. i.) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.
(3) - Convention (v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical.
(4) - Convention (v. i.) General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
(5) - Convention (v. i.) The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.