convive
nounEtymology Borrowed from French convive.
1
Obsolete a participant in a feast or banquet
2
Obsolete a feast or banquet
- First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent; There, in the full convive we; afterwards, As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall Concur together, severally entreat himc. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], lines 271-4:
- Related terms
- convivial