Definition of Connivent

1. a. Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice.

Definition of Connivent

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Connivent

1. Coming into contact, converging. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Connivent

conning
conning tower
conning towers
connings
conniption
conniption fit
conniptions
connivance
connivances
connivant
connive
connive at
connived
connivencies
connivency
connivent
conniver
conniveries
connivers
connivery
connives
conniving
connivingly
connivings
connixation
connixations
connodal
connoisseur
connoisseurial
connoisseurs

Literary usage of Connivent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany of the Northern and Middle States: Or, A Description of the Plants by Lewis Caleb Beck (1833)
"lip lanceolate, acuminate, incurved ; segments of the perianth connivent, subulate ; spur about the length of the lip, incurved ;. stem leafy. HAH. ..."

2. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"... connivent lobes, reminds one of Collema granulatum, Ach.; but, in the absence of buds and of any fructification, the structure of the frond seems to ..."

3. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"tube, their fil. connivent combined. FEM. : cat. and cor. 5-partite, base none or reduced to a very narrow rim or ring, sep. and lobes of cor. distinct down ..."

4. The British Flower Garden, (series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Stigmas 3, linear-oblong, obtuse, connivent, thick and fleshy, thrice longer than the style, convex, and copiously clothed exteriorly with papillose ..."

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