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/kənvˈin/ Listen

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

... however, neither I nor any one else can tell, as it depends upon the meeting and sitting of a certain Convention, summoned for the revising of the constitution of the State of Pennsylvania; and there is at present an uncertainty as to the time of its opening. It was at first appointed to convene on the 1st of May, and it was then resolved that I should return early in March, so as to be in America by that time; but my last news is that the meeting of the Convention may take place in February, and my stay in ...

— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble

... Cabinet Council held on January 21et 1902, it was resolved to convene a Union Consular Committee consisting of two Swedish and two Norwegian authorities,[21:1] who were to institute an examination as to how far a new arrangement with separate Consuls for each of the United Kingdoms would ...

— The Swedish-Norwegian Union Crisis - A History with Documents • Karl Nordlund

... definite epoch in my life had now closed, I knew; henceforth I would dwell in far lands. I entrained for Calcutta a few hours after my vision. The following day I received an invitation to serve as the delegate from India to an International Congress of Religious Liberals in America. It was to convene that year in Boston, under the auspices of ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... for that purpose was appointed for the day afterward so mournfully conspicuous as that of the funeral obsequies of our assassinated President. Amidst the sad and angry excitement of the closing scenes of that terrible tragedy, it was found impossible to convene a sufficient number of the corporators (although present in the city) to form a quorum for the transaction of business. The opportunity thus lost did not recur, and though an effort was made to substitute proxies for actual ...

— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett

... is exercised by the parliament, which makes all the laws for the nation. As to Prussia, the constitutional monarchy was established when the people started a revolution. The ruler of Prussia was compelled to convene a parliament and submitted to that legal body a constitution. Prussia's constitution was made by its ruler together with the parliament. Its constitutional government is not so good as the English. As to the Japanese constitutional monarchy, the Emperor made a constitution and then convened ...

— The Fight For The Republic in China • Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale

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