Convene /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Convened; p. pr. & vb. n. Convenong

1. To come together; to meet; to unite. [R.]

   In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.

2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.

   The Parliament of Scotland now convened.

   Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.

1. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.

   And now the almighty father of the gods Convenes a council in the blest abodes.

2. To summon judicially to meet or appear.

   By the papal canon law, clerks . . . can not be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge.