The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convenable \Con*ven"a*ble\, a. Capable of being convened or assembled.
Convenable \Con"ve*na*ble\, a. [F. convenable, fr. convenir. See Convene.] Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies. [Obs.]
With his wod his work is convenable.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of being convened or assembled. 2 (context obsolete English) consistent; accordant; suitable; proper
Usage examples of "convenable".
Monseigneur thought it would not be convenable for me to be with him until he had found a lady suitable to be my gouvernante, you see.
It is not convenable for young girls to masquerade as boys in the house of an Alastair.
And after that, he somewhat returning to himselfe, invented and forged a great lye, saying, that he had displeased the divine majesty of the goddesse, by doing of some thing which was not convenable to the order of their holy religion, wherefore he would doe vengeance of himselfe : and therewithall he tooke a whip, and scourged his owne body, that the bloud issued out aboundantly, which thing caused me greatly to feare, to see such wounds and effusion of bloud, least the same goddesse desiring so much the bloud of men, should likewise desire the bloud of an Asse.
Know thou, that now thou art safe, and under the protection of her, who by her cleare light doth lighten the other gods : wherefore rejoyce and take a convenable countenance to thy white habit, follow the pomp of this devout and honorable procession, to the end that such which be not devout to the Goddes, may see and acknowledge their errour.
Next to Charles Lamb, but at a convenable distance, Izaak Walton was Tom Folio's favorite.