The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forgather \For*gath"er\, v. i.
To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool.
--Wilson.
Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate.
WordNet
v. collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: meet, gather, assemble, foregather]
Usage examples of "forgather".
Vicus Pallacinae, and was the place where the various components and members of the triumphal parade forgathered before the parade commenced.
And as to the forgathering, ask Father Roubeau here: he performed the ceremony.
Following which plan, they forgathered not seldom: but on one of these evenings, when Federigo was to sup with Monna Tessa on two fat capons that she had boiled, it so chanced that Gianni arrived there unexpectedly and very late, much to the lady's chagrin: so she had a little salt meat boiled apart, on which she supped with her husband.
Wherein 'twould seem that thou, following rather the opinion of the vulgar than the dictates of truth, find cause to chide me more severely than in my sinful love, for, as if thou wouldst not have been vexed, had my choice fallen on a nobleman, thou complainest that I have forgathered with a man of low condition.