convene

verb

Etymology: 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-.

1. To come together; to meet; to unite.

   “In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom.”

2. To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.

   “The Parliament of Scotland now convened.”

   “Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.”

3. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
4. To summon judicially to meet or appear.
5. 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.”