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convelled

convelled is the simple past and past participle of convel.

Meaning of convel

Verb

convel (third-person singular simple present convels, present participle convelling, simple past and past participle convelled)

  1. (obsolete) To tear (tissue, a nerve, etc.), to convulse.
    • [Comfrey] is a vulnerary, and is much commended to disrupted, broken, bruised and convelled members.1657, Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A medicinal dispensatory, Medicinal Materials, Book 1, section 5, chapter 10, page 353
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) To completely rebut, to utterly reject.
    • Let vs come to his last exception against Doctor Humphrey, which is that hee handleth the matter artificially, to make a credulous reader beleeue that Saint Augustine himselfe doth conuell the vse of prayer for the dead by those sentences of the Apostle.1628, Richard Field, Of the Church fiue bookes, Appendix, part 1, book 2, section 8, page 793

Questions about convelled

What is convelled the simple past and past participle of?
Convelled is the simple past and past participle of convel.

Words near convelled in the dictionary

  1. convectively
  2. convector
  3. convectors
  4. convects
  5. convel
  6. convelled
  7. convellent
  8. convelling
  9. convels
  10. convenable
  11. convenably

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