Word.ws English Dictionary

convented

convented is the simple past and past participle of convent.

Meaning of convent

Verb

convent (third-person singular simple present convents, present participle conventing, simple past and past participle convented)

  1. (obsolete) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
    • Tomorrow morning to the Council board
      He be convented.1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...
  2. (obsolete) To meet together; to concur.
    • We convent nought else but woes1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please...
  3. (obsolete) To be convenient; to serve.
    • When that is known and golden time convents.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

See all 10 meanings of convent

Adjective

convented (comparative more convented, superlative most convented)

  1. (obsolete) Brought together, convened.
    • Socrates in a fair, seeing so many things bought and sold, such a multitude of people convented to that purpose, exclaimed forthwith, “O ye gods, what a sight of things do not I want!”, II.3.3

Forms of convented

comparativemore convented
superlativemost convented

Questions about convented

What does convented mean?
Convented means brought together, convened.
What is convented the simple past and past participle of?
Convented is the simple past and past participle of convent.
What part of speech is convented?
Convented is an adjective.

Words near convented in the dictionary

  1. convenorships
  2. convent
  3. convent school
  4. convent schools
  5. Convent Station
  6. convented
  7. conventical
  8. conventicle
  9. conventicled
  10. conventicler
  11. conventiclers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: convented (page history and authors); convent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “convented.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/convented. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.