CONNIVENT

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.

2.
a.

Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc.


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