convocate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin convocatus, past participle of convocare (“to convocate”). Doublet of convoke.
Verb
editconvocate (third-person singular simple present convocates, present participle convocating, simple past and past participle convocated)
- (transitive, obsolete) To call together (people); to convoke.
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The VI. [Supposition] that in Fact the Roman Bishops Continually from Saint Peter’s Time have Enjoyed and Exercised this Sovereign Power]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 275:
- To the Apoſtolical authority (ſaid Pope Adrian I.) by our Lord's command, and by the merits of Saint Peter, and by the decrees of the Holy Canons and of the Venerable Fathers, a right and ſpecial povver of convocating Synods hath many vviſe been committed; […]
- 1694, George Dawson, Origo Legum:
- A General Synod was when all the Bishops of every Diocess of the whole Empire were Convocated by the Emperour
References
edit- “convocate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editconvocate
- inflection of convocare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editconvocate f pl
Latin
editVerb
editconvocāte
Spanish
editVerb
editconvocate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of convocar combined with te
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