Adventist :: Adventist (n.) One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists..

Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.

Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots..

Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

Adventitious :: Adventitious (a.) Acquired, as diseases; accidental..

Adventive :: Adventive (a.) Accidental.

Adventive :: Adventive (a.) Adventitious.

Adventive :: Adventive (n.) A thing or person coming from without; an immigrant.

Aventine :: Aventine (a.) Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood..

Aventine :: Aventine (n.) A post of security or defense.

Circumventing :: Circumventing (p. pr. vb. n.) of Circumven.

Circumvention :: Circumvention (n.) The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion..

Circumventive :: Circumventive (a.) Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.

Contravention :: Contravention (n.) The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.

Conventical :: Conventical (a.) Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent..

Conventicle :: Conventicle (n.) A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly..

Conventicle :: Conventicle (n.) An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics..

Conventicler :: Conventicler (n.) One who supports or frequents conventicles.

Conventicling :: Conventicling (a.) Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle..

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical..

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II..

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments..

Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal..

Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules..

Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t..

Conventionalily :: Conventionalily (adv.) In a conventional manner.

Conventionalism :: Conventionalism (n.) That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage..

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