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; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland.

A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus.

An abbreviature; an abbreviation. [Obs.] Johnson.

The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter. [Obs.] Derham.

tainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham.

A person of convivial habits.

The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.

In a convivial manner.

Of or pertaining to Cracow in Poland.

Deviating. [Obs.]

to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary. Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, May boldly deviate from the common track. Pope.

The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or the path of duty.

One who, or that which, deviates.

Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. [R.] Tully.

Of or pertaining to a flood or deluge, esp. to the great deluge in the days of Noah; diluvian.

One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge. Lyell.

Of or pertaining to a deluge, esp. to the Noachian deluge; diluvial; as, of diluvian origin. Buckland.

To run as a flood. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

Capable of being given off as an effluvium. "Effluviable matter." Boyle.