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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1432, 1500-1512, 1585-1586
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Conveniable, a. [ME. conuenyable (a1500), e.m.E. conueniable (1574).]Variant of Convenable a. — 1432 Acts II. 20.
At tyme and place conueniable c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxviii. 2 (M).
To find a sentence conveniable [v.r. conuenabille] a1586 Lindsay MS. 1 b.
To gif thame as he thinkis maist conveniable a1586 Ib. 70.
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