Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To convoke; call or summon to meet; assemble by summons.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To convoke; to call together.

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  • verb obsolete, transitive To convoke; to call together.

Etymologies

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Latin convocatus, past participle of convocare to convocate.

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Examples

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

    Bollore Sounds Battle Cry For Aegis 2006

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

    The Warden 2004

  • 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 Alexander Hewatt

  • 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 Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

  • 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 John Richard Green 1860

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

    The Warden Anthony Trollope 1848

  • 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) George Gillespie 1630

  • 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) George Gillespie 1630

  • 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) George Gillespie 1630

  • 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) George Gillespie 1630

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