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The person in whose favor a covenant is made.

One who makes a covenant.

Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.

The party who makes a covenant. Burrill.

To dissolve covenant with.

Let out of the veins. [Obs.] "Extravenate blood." Glanvill.

Harbor dues; port dues.

A youth. [Obs.] Shak.

Of or pertaining to the number nine.

A going before; anticipation in sequence or order. "The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence." Ward.

The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness. [Obs.] Sterne.

Origin; source; provenience.

A genus of plants related to the banana.

To render young again.

Rendered young again; as, rejuvenated life.

Rejuvenescence.

Remembrance. [Obs.] Of his way he had no sovenance. Spenser.

Not covenable; inconvenient. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Tim. iv. 7).

Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract. Bp. Horsley.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.