Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An isolated community devoted to religious life, usually of nuns; also, the buildings in which they live. 2. (n.) A coming together; a meeting. 3. (n.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery. 4. (v. i.) To meet together; to concur. 5. (v. i.) To be convenient; to serve. 6. (v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia CONVENT kon-vent': Found in the King James Version margin of Jeremiah 49:19: "Who will convent me in judgment?" and in Jeremiah 50:44: "Who will convent me to plead?" The Hebrew term which is rendered convent is ya`adh, and it means to summon to a court, to call on to plead. Convent is obsolete, but it was formerly used, and meant to summon, or to call before a judge. Shakespeare used it several times. In King Henry VIII, Act V, he said, "The lords of the council hath commanded that the archbishop be convented to the council board."