convellent

English

Etymology

Latin convellens, present participle of convellere. See convulse.

Adjective

convellent (comparative more convellent, superlative most convellent)

1. (obsolete) Tending to tear or pull up.
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     The ends of the fragment […] will not yield to the convellent force.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “convellent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) convellent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of convellō