Dictionary entry

Convene (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐vene″, v. t. 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.