convene
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Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, convenire (“come together”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.
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convene (third-person singular simple present convenes, present participle convening, simple past and past participle convened)
- (intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
- 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
- In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.
- (intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
- 1670, Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King James:
- The Parliament of Scotland now convened.
- 1727, James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.
- (transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
- (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
- (transitive, with "on" or "upon") To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.
- To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.
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to come together, to meet, to unite
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to come together as in one body or for a public purpose
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to cause to assemble, to call together
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to summon judicially to meet or appear
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