convoke
verb (used with object)
to call together; summon to meet or assemble.
convoking
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present participleof convoke.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Ambassador Andrew Young, Football Coach Tom Landry and other notables in convoking 800 "national leaders" to a glittering "Congress of the Laity" in Los Angeles next February.
From Time Magazine Archive
The idea has come more and more to the front of ... convoking a special advisory committee.
From Time Magazine Archive
The very convoking of the conference diminished the first angry passions, giving time for cooler thoughts and, for some, colder feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
This could well mean a convoking of something like the shortlived Geneva Conference that met just after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
From Time Magazine Archive
These expressed their approval of Mr. Lloyd George's step in convoking the League of Nations for the settlement of the Serbo-Albanian question.
From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein
