convene
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
convene
v 1: meet formally; "The council convened last week"
2: call together; "The students were convened in the auditorium"
[syn: {convoke}, {convene}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Convene \Con*vene"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Convened}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Convenong}.] [L. convenire; con- + venire to come:
cf. F. convenir to agree, to be fitting, OF. also, to
assemble. See {Come}, and cf. {Covenant}.]
1. To come together; to meet; to unite. [R.]
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In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and
convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
--Sir I.
Newton.
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2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose;
to meet; to assemble. --Locke.
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The Parliament of Scotland now convened. --Sir R.
Baker.
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Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.
--Thomson.
Syn: To meet; to assemble; to congregate; to collect; to
unite.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Convene \Con*vene"\, v. t.
1. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
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And now the almighty father of the gods
Convenes a council in the blest abodes. --Pope.
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2. To summon judicially to meet or appear.
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By the papal canon law, clerks . . . can not be
convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge.
--Ayliffe.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "convene":
assemble, bid come, call, call away, call back, call for,
call forth, call in, call out, call together, call up, cite,
conjure, conjure up, convoke, demand, evoke, hold a meeting,
hold a session, indent, invoke, meet, muster, muster up, open,
order up, page, preconize, recall, requisition, send after,
send for, serve, sit, subpoena, summon, summon forth, summon up,
summons
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