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noun Etymology: Middle English covin agreement, confederacy, from Anglo-French covine, from Medieval Latin convenium agreement, from Latin convenire to agree — more at convenient Date: circa 1520 1. a collection of individuals with similar interests or activities a ~ of intellectuals 2. an assembly or band of usually 13 witches
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- "a gathering of witches," 1660s, earlier a variant of covent, cuvent early forms of convent (q.v.). Association with witches arose in Scotland c.1500, but not popularized until Sir Walter Scott used it in this sense in "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft" (1830). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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