not+affording+convenience

  • 41Kirkconnel —    KIRKCONNEL, a parish, in the county of Dumfries, 4 miles (N. W. by W.) from Sanquhar; containing 1130 inhabitants, of whom 500 are in the village. St. Connel, to whom the church was dedicated, appears to have given the name to the parish. The… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 42commodious — [15] Latin commodus meant ‘convenient’. It was a compound adjective formed from com ‘with’ and modus ‘measure’, and thus meaning literally ‘conforming with due measure’. From it was derived the medieval Latin adjective commodiōsus, which passed,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 43commodious — [15] Latin commodus meant ‘convenient’. It was a compound adjective formed from com ‘with’ and modus ‘measure’, and thus meaning literally ‘conforming with due measure’. From it was derived the medieval Latin adjective commodiōsus, which passed,… …

    Word origins