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convocate en · VERB

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin convocatus, past participle of convocare (“to convocate”). Doublet of convoke.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To call together (people); to convoke.
   • A General Synod was when all the Bishops of every Diocess of the whole Empire were Convocated by the Emperour 1694, George Dawson, Origo Legum:
   • To the Apoſtolical authority (ſaid Pope Adrian I.) by our Lord's command, and by the merits of Saint Peter, and by the decrees of the Holy Canons and of the Venerable Fathers, a right and ſpecial povver of convocating Synods hath many vviſe been committed; […] a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The VI. [Supposition] that in Fact the Roman Bishops Continually from Saint Peter’s Time have Enjoyed and Exercised this Sovereign Power]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 275:

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