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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

obvention

, fr.

obvenire

to come before or in the way of, to befall;

(see

) +

venire

to come: cf. F.

obvention

The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.

[Obs.]

“Tithes and other obventions.”

Spenser.

Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and

obventions

Fuller.

Noun.

[L. obvenio, ob and venio, to come.]

Something occasional; that which happens not regularly, but incidentally. [Not used.]

obvention ‎(plural obventions)

(obsolete) The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.

Tithes and other obventions. — Spenser.

Legacies bequeathed by the deaths of princes and great persons, and other casualities and obventions. — Fuller.