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
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
Louis, in the mean while, had convoked the ban and arrière-ban of the contiguous French provinces, and mustered an array of chivalry and feudal militia amounting, according to the Spanish historians, to thirty thousand men.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott
Parliament there would be none: for the Parliament would expire with the prince who had convoked it.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
