convene.
To come together; to meet; to unite.
Meaning & usage
To come together; to meet; to unite.
To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
To summon judicially to meet or appear.
To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.
To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, convenire (“come together”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.
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