covenable

Middle English

Etymology

Old French covenable.

Adjective

covenable

fit; proper; suitable
- c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, editors, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, OCLC 459166891, Mark 6:21, page 103:
  a covenable day
  (please add an English translation of this quote)

References

covenable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Old French

Etymology

covenir +‎ -able

Adjective

covenable m (oblique and nominative feminine singular covenable)

appropriate; fitting

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