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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

... her somewhat crude effectiveness in showmanship. Otti had brought with her from Vienna her native peasant costume. It is a costume seen daily in the Austrian capital, on the Ring, in the Stadt Park, wherever Viennese nurses convene with their small charges. To the American eye it is a musical comedy costume, picturesque, bouffant, amazing. Your Austrian takes it quite for granted. Regardless of the age of the nurse, the skirt is short, coming a few inches below the knees, ...

— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber

... Bad spelling I know but still. Last Wendesday a boy named Jenkinson swalowed a button-hook but recovered it practically as good as when bought (or perhaps a Xmas present). He was always called Bolter for a nickname, so it was jolly convene. For once he did the right thing. Mostly he is an utter ass. How is the polligamous pirate getting on with wives &c.? That comes from a Greek word polis, a city, so I suppose in the country they are too conventual. I like ...

— Love and Lucy • Maurice Henry Hewlett

... previous trials, and containing this declaration:— "In the name of Israel's God, and by virtue of multiplied ties of country and kindred, we ask your friendly interposition in our favor. Will it be too much for us to ask you to convene a special session of Congress and furnish us an asylum where we can enjoy our rights of conscience and religion unmolested? Or will you, in special message to that body when convened, recommend a remonstrance against such unhallowed acts of oppression and expatriation as this people ...

— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn

... condition of the half-finished Panama Canal. He was inaugurated President on March 4. In the selection of his cabinet officers, and in his public addresses, he showed a determination to avoid sectionalism and narrow partisanship. One of his first acts as President was to convene Congress in special session beginning March 15, for the purpose of framing a ...

— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... the Lieutenant-Governor for advice and direction. As all these matters, however, belong rather to the mercantile history of the country than to the story of the Rebellion, there is no need to go into them with minuteness. Suffice it to say that Sir Francis Head deemed it proper in this emergency to convene an extra session of the Legislature, which met accordingly on Monday, the 19th of June. As Mr. McLean had accepted a seat on the bench since the close of the preceding session, it was necessary that a new Speaker should be ...

— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent

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