convocate
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of convocate
First recorded in 1550–60
Example Sentences
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The Commissioners are to convocate the lieges in arms for apprehending the said rebels, and to enter them, when taken, before the justice to be suitably punished for their crimes.
From History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie
To this court also it shall belong to convocate the grand council.
From An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt
Balduine holdeth,976 that a prince may not by himself enjoin any new ecclesiastical rite, but must convocate a synod for the deliberation and definition of such things.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
No, not if all Oxford were to convocate together, and agree as to the necessity of the sacrifice.
From The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Ecclesiastical persons may convocate councils simply, and by a spiritual power and jurisdiction; but to convocate them by a temporal and coactive power, pertaineth to princes only.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Our Members of Parliament, which have been convocated to an extraordinary session on account of a railway loan, did not dare, or did not deem it expedient, to interfere.
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
Under his influence the Jewish Synod convocated in those times, issued a proclamation to all the Polish Jews.
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons
Pantagruel convocated together a theologian, physician, lawyer, and philosopher, for extricating Panurge out of the perplexity wherein he was.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
The grand council shall meet the first Tuesday in every month, and as much oftener as either they shall think fit, or they shall be convocated by the chamberlain's court.
From An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt
The Electoral College shall be convocated by the President and organized within three days before the election.
From The Fight For The Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
If it be objected that our divines maintain against Papists, that the right and power of convocating synods pertaineth to princes: Ans.,
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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