convene
Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, from con- + veniō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.

Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /kənˈviːn/
  • (America, Canada) IPA: /kənˈvin/
  • (Australia) IPA: /kənˈviːn/, [kənˈvɪin]
Verb

convene (convenes, present participle convening; simple past and past participle convened)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
    • a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC ↗:
      Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.
  3. (transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
  4. (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
  5. (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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