convocate

• “We will definitely convocate another EGM in, say, three months," he told reporters.”

  Forbes: Bollore Sounds Battle Cry For Aegis

• “To this court also it shall belong to convocate the grand council.”

  An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1

• “I felt, indeed, like a Daniel doomed to convocate my own lions, and lacking that faith in a preserving Providence which is believed to have cheered and elevated the spirit of the ancient prophet, I confidently expected, on the whole, to be devoured.”

  Cape Cod Folks

• “The nobles, dreading the resumption of church lands, were with the king; and in 1584 an Act of the Estates denounced the judicial and legislative authority assumed by the General Assembly, provided that no subjects, temporal or spiritual, "take upon them to convocate or assemble themselves together for holding of councils, conventions, or assemblies," and demanded a pledge of obedience from every minister.”

  History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660

• “No, not if all Oxford were to convocate together, and agree as to the necessity of the sacrifice.”

  The Warden

• “Neither did he this work by himself, but did convocate a council of the prophets, priests and elders of Israel, for the advancing of that reformation, 2 Kings xxiii.”

  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

• “Balduine holdeth, (976) that a prince may not by himself enjoin any new ecclesiastical rite, but must convocate a synod for the deliberation and definition of such things.”

  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

• “Ecclesiastical persons may convocate councils simply, and by a spiritual power and jurisdiction; but to convocate them by a temporal and coactive power, pertaineth to princes only.”

  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

• “Sometimes they interposed their authority, and meddled in causes spiritual or ecclesiastical, even before the definition of councils; yet did they not judge nor decide those matters, but did only convocate councils, and urge the clergy to see to the mis-ordered and troubled state of the church, and by their wholesome laws and ordinances, to provide the best remedies for the same which they could.”

  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

• “In ordinary cases, and when princes are not enemies to the truth and purity of the gospel, ecclesiastical persons should not do well to assemble themselves together in a synod, except they be convocate with the authority or consent of princes.”

  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)

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