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ing 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.

taining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

Gay; merry; jovial; convivial. A boon companion, loving his bottle. Arbuthnot.

pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial. [Obs.] "A convival dish." Sir T. Browne.

To feast together; to be convivial. [Obs.] "There, in the full, convive we." Shak.

One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.

Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.

drinking cup, generally with four handles, formerly used for passing around the table at convivial entertainment.

Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl. "Awassail candle, my lord, all tallow." Shak. Wassail bowl, a bowl in which wassail was mixed, and placed upon the table. "Spiced wassail bowl." J. Fletcher. "When the cloth was removed, the butler brought in a huge silver vessel . . . Its app…