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Webster 1913 Edition


Conventional

Con-ven′tion-al

,
Adj.
[L.
conventionalis
: cf. F.
conventionnel
.]
1.
Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
Conventional
services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights’ service.
Sir M. Hale.
2.
Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
Conventional decorum.”
Whewell.
The
conventional
language appropriated to monarchs.
Motley.
The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are
conventional
.
Latham.
3.
(Fine Arts)
(a)
Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
(b)
Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected;
as, a
conventional
flower; a
conventional
shell.
Cf.
Conventionalize
,
Verb.
T.

Webster 1828 Edition


Conventional

CONVENTIONAL

,
Adj.
Stipulated; formed by agreement.
Conventional services reserved by tenures on grants, made out of the crown or knights service.

Definition 2024


convențional

convențional

See also: conventional

Romanian

Adjective

convențional m, n (feminine singular convențională, masculine plural convenționali, feminine and neuter plural convenționale)

  1. conventional

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