† diˈscovenable, a. Obs.
[a. OF. descovenable, -convenable, unsuitable, unbefitting, inconvenient, f. des-, dis- 4 + co(n)venable: see convenable, covenable.]
Unsuitable, unbefitting, inappropriate.
| [1292 Britton i. xxix. §5 Si la condicioun soit inpossible ou descovenable.] 1474 Caxton Chesse ii. v. D viij b, The peple of rome..no thynge shamefast to demaunde thynges discouenable. 1484 ― Chivalry 18 A discouenable thyng it shold be that a man that wold lerne to sewe shold lerne to sewe of a carpenter. |