convene Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb meet formally
    • The council convened last week
  2. verb call together
    convoke.
    • The students were convened in the auditorium

WordNet

Con*vene" intransitive verb
Etymology
L. convenire; con- + venire to come: cf. F. convenir to agree, to be fitting, OF. also, to assemble. See Come, and cf. Covenant.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Convened ; present participle & verbal noun Convenong
Definitions
  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. Sir I. Newton.
  2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. Locke.
    The Parliament of Scotland now convened. Sir R. Baker.
    Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene. Thomson.
    Syn. -- To meet; to assemble; to congregate; to collect; to unite.
Con*vene" transitive verb
Definitions
  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. Pope.
  2. To summon judicially to meet or appear.
    By the papal canon law, clerks . . . can not be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge. Ayliffe.

Webster 1913