Crossword clues for convocation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convocation \Con`vo*ca"tion\, n. [L. convocatio: cf. F. convocation. See Convoke.]
The act of calling or assembling by summons.
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An assembly or meeting.
In the first day there shall be a holy convocation.
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(Ch. of Eng.) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
Note: In England, the provinces of Canterbury and York have each their convocation, but no session for business were allowed from 1717 to 1861. The Convocation of Canterbury consists of two houses. In the Convocation of York the business has been generally conducted in one assembly.
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(Oxf. University) An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
Syn: meeting; assembly; congregation; congress; diet; convention; synod; council.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "assembly of persons," from Old French convocation and directly from Latin convocationem (nominative convocatio), noun of action from past participle stem of convocare "to call together," from com- "together" (see com-) + vocare "to call," from vox "voice" (see voice (n.)). Related: Convocational.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of calling or assembling by summons. 2 An assembly or meeting. 3 An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs. 4 An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
WordNet
n. a group gathered in response to a summons
the act of convoking [syn: calling together]
Wikipedia
A convocation (from the Latin convocare meaning "to call/come together", a translation of the Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose, mostly ecclesiastical or academic.
Usage examples of "convocation".
Tunborelarba of the Arba waved all four hands for quiet and proceeded to open the solemn convocation with a pugnacious, if not downright martial, paean to the virtues of the Great Hive.
Aurelia Bodica must feel threatened by the proposed druidical convocation and the investigations now being carried out in Eburacum and Corstopitum.
Ayatollah Jebel Shammar this morning--you know, the chairman of Convocation of Ecumenical Leaders.
There they all are, the fat pigs, de Tomas thought as he sat on the dais just behind Ayatollah Jebel Shammar, the current chairman of the Convocation.
Tomas thought as he sat on the dais just behind Ayatollah Jebel Shammar, the current chairman of the Convocation.
They were flattered by a convocation of a representative assembly, on the principles of equality and liberty: an assembly which abolished the hereditary stadtholderate, with all the forms of the preceding constitution, published the declaration of the rights of man, reversed the sentences passed in a previous year against democrats, and recalled all those who had been exiled for their democratical principles.
The meeting hall atop Mount Temple had been reduced to rubble by the constant bombardments, so the Convocation was sitting that day in spacious subcellars where the participants were relatively safe from the Skink weapons.
Those who did not fall for this carefully engineered propaganda--such as the neo-Puritans, the Anabaptists, and the Scientific Pantheists--were not powerful enough to oppose either the Collegium or the Convocation, and where de Tomas was not able to penetrate their congregations and eliminate their leadership, he was content to wait.
A motion is before the Convocation of Ecumenical Leaders to demand the immediate removal from the Kingdom of Yahweh and His Saints and Their Apostles of all infidels other than those few necessary to maintain needed contact with the Confederation of Human Worlds.
It was finally concluded that Archbishop General Lambsblood should seek a meeting with Brigadier Sturgeon and ask him to communicate his plans for breaking the siege to the members of the Convocation, although none thought he would.
There is to be a convocation of the order, to discuss the new chapter houses and cloisters in Germany.
Convocation of Princes meets to elect a new Emperor, there will be all manner of opportunity for the Esquires of even the minor Houses to secure his patronage.
Still, there is now this new convocation of magicians, who have formed something called the Assembly, toward what ends only the magicians know.
Professor Angell, as befitted one of his authority and attainments, had had a prominent part in all the deliberations, and was one of the first to be approached by the several outsiders who took advantage of the convocation to offer questions for correct answering and problems for expert solution.
At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture, but a payment of two rhinu left them astoundedly agreeing that perhaps He wasn't as holy as all that.