convoke
verb (used with object)
to call together; summon to meet or assemble.
had convoked
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past perfectof convoke.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Within three weeks, Israeli diplomats and journalists were flying into Cairo to attend—along with a U.S. delegate and a United Nations representative—a pre-Geneva conference that Sadat had convoked.
From Time Magazine Archive
They saw they were dealing with a foregone conclusion; he had convoked them, not to advise as to methods, but to furnish the means.
From Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John George Nicolay
In 1343 he had convoked at Paris one of those assemblies which were beginning to be called the states-general of the kingdom, and he obtained from it certain subventions.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Robert Black
Antony had convoked the Senate for November, threatening the Senators with awful punishments should they absent themselves; but, when the day came, Antony, the Consul, had himself fled.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
But, at the same time, the Diet which had convoked it had in no way fixed its attributions.
From Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 by Karl Marx
