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  • Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from Latin convocation -, convocatio, from convocare

    Convocation 2007

  • XXXVI, 984) distinguishes them on the ground that ecclesia is indicative of the calling together of men, synagoga of the forcible herding together of irrational creatures: "congregatio magis pecorum convocatio magis hominum intelligi solet".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

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