adv. Obs. [f. COVENABLE + -LY2; cf. CONABLY, CONVENABLY.] In a suitable, proper or convenient manner; fitly; appropriately; seasonably, opportunely; conveniently.
1382. Wyclif, Mark xiv. 11. And he souȝte how he schulde bitraye him couenably [Vulg. opportune].
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 303. Gades is couenableliche first i-sette among þe ylondes of þe greet see.
1477. Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 9. A good medicine couenably yeuen to them that be seke.
1613. Sir H. Finch, Law (1636), 175. If a daughter be couenably married by him, this is a sufficient aduancement.
[1764. Burn, Poor Laws, 3. In every church … a secular person was to be ordained vicar perpetual, and covenably endowed. Cf. Act 4 Hen. IV. c. xii.]
