Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-VENE'
CON-VENE', v.t.
- To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. The president has power to convene the Congress on special occasions.
- To summon judicially to meet or appear. By the papal canon law, clerks can be convened only before an ecclesiastical judge. – Ayliffe.
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