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Convene

//kənˈviːn// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To come together; to meet; to unite. intransitive

    "In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom."

  2. 2
    call together wordnet
  3. 3
    To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. intransitive

    "The Parliament of Scotland now convened."

  4. 4
    meet formally wordnet
  5. 5
    To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon. transitive
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  1. 6
    To summon judicially to meet or appear. transitive
  2. 7
    To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention. transitive

    "To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings."

Etymology

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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