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Connive vs Convive - What's the difference?

connive | convive |

As verbs the difference between connive and convive

is that connive is to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude while convive is (obsolete) to feast with others.

As a noun convive is

(obsolete) a feast or banquet.

connive

English

Verb

(conniv)
  • to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude
  • to plot or scheme
  • to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • to connive at what it does not approve
  • * Burke
    • In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving .
  • * Macaulay
    • The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.
  • (archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
  • * Spectator
    • The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.
  • to be a wench

    • Related terms

    * connivance * connivent * conniver * connivingly * knive

    References

    English control verbs ----

    convive

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To feast with others
  • * c. 1602 -- , Act IV, Scene V
    • First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent;
    There, in the full convive we; afterwards,
    As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall
    Concur together, severally entreat him

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a feast or banquet
  • (obsolete) a participant in a feast or banquet

    • Related terms

    * convivial ----