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convoked
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Convoke \Con*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Convoked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Convoking .] [L. convocare: cf. F. convoquer. See Convocate .] To call together; to summon to meet; to assemble by summons. There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking ...
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vb. (en-past of: convoke )
Usage examples of convoked.
Once convoked, the vote is determined by a Yes or a No on the act proposed by the legislative body.
In that event all the primary assemblies of the Republic must be convoked and if the majority still decides in the negative, that is a definitive veto.
The list of notables convoked by the King in 1787 gives an approximate idea of this social staff.
Thereupon, many illiterate or ill-informed electors might think that they were convoked to vote solely on the Constitution and not at all on the decrees, which is just what happened, and especially in the remote departments, and in the rural assemblies.
The senate, convoked in the temple of Concord, affected to transact the common business of the day.
This is apparent in the absence of electors convoked to replace them: at Bordeaux only four hundred and fifty came to the poll out of nine hundred, while elsewhere the summons brings together only "a third or a quarter" In many places there are no candidates, or those elected decline to accept.
In the monastery of the Deux-Amants the chapter convoked in 1789 consisted of two monks.
At Étampes,[17] where they are convoked by the commissioners of the department to take steps to re-establish some kind of order, only twenty assemble.
He took the lead after Sakyamuni's death, convoked and directed the first synod, from which his title of Arya sthavira is derived.
Asoka transferred his court from Rajagriha to Pataliputtra, and there, in the eighteenth year of his reign, he convoked the third Great Synod,--according, at least, to southern Buddhism.
The Council in the Srataparna cave did not come together fortuitously, but appears to have been convoked by the older members to settle the rules and doctrines of the order.
Montfort convoked a Parliament at Vannes which all Breton nobles were obliged to attend.
If I had wished vaikka with Tashavodh to lead to catastrophe, would I have convoked the Orithanhe in the first place?
It seemed to me, staring around at the convoked host, that many leaned forward, that many nodded heads.
I sought him through the crowded confusion of the convoked host, with Estrazi's words reverberating in my mind: Do as you will with him.