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verb

Convene v. t.

To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. "And now the almighty father of the gods Convenes a council in the blest abodes."

To summon judicially to meet or appear. "By the papal canon law, clerks... can not be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge."

Convene v. i. (past & past part. convened; pres. part. convenong)

To come together; to meet; to unite. (R.) "In shortsighted men... the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom."

To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. "The Parliament of Scotland now convened." "Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene."

Synonyms: To meet; to assemble; to congregate; to collect; to unite.

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"Convene" Quotes from Famous Books

... question in accordance with its common position; (c) indicates, by an absolute majority of its component members, that it intends to reject the common position, it shall immediately inform the Council. The Council may convene a meeting of the Conciliation Committee referred to in paragraph 4 to explain further its position. The European parliament shall thereafter either confirm, by an absolute majority of its component members, its rejection of the common position, in which event ...

— The Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992 • European Union

... Duc d'Orleans approved of my scheme, and ordered me to convene a general assembly of the ecclesiastical communities, and to get deputies chosen out of them all, and go with them to Court, there to present the deputation, which should request the King to give peace to his people and return to his good city of Paris. I was also to endeavour by the aid of my ...

— The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete • Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

... The President may convene either or both houses of Congress on extraordinary occasions. For example, he may call an extra session of Congress to consider such questions as the tariff, currency reform, ...

— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson

... the vice-presidency become vacant in the interim between two Congresses, when there is neither President of the Senate nor Speaker of the House. Thus President Garfield died September 19, 1881, and the XLVlllth Congress did not convene to choose a Speaker until the next December. The Senate had adjourned without electing a presiding officer. Had President Arthur died at any moment during the intervening period—and it is said that he was for a time in imminent danger of death—the distracting contingency just spoken ...

— History of the United States, Volume 4 • E. Benjamin Andrews

... these are (and in spite of their grim name they are quite innocent) no array of terms would render thinkable to the merely English intelligence; but to the Scot they often prove unctuously nourishing, and Mr. Nicholson found in them the milk of lions. About the period when the churches convene at Edinburgh in their annual assemblies, he was to be seen descending the Mound in the company of divers red-headed clergymen: these voluble, he only contributing oracular nods, brief negatives, and the austere spectacle of his stretched upper lip. The names of Candlish and Begg ...

— Tales and Fantasies • Robert Louis Stevenson

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