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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of convoke.

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Examples

  • Referring to laypeople committed in the service of the Church, the Pope said there should not be "a lessening of the awareness that they are 'Church,' because Christ, the eternal Word of the Father, convokes them and makes them his People."

    Benedict XVI: Church Needs Change of Mentality Catholic Mom of 10 2009

  • If America convokes a convention on the authority of the Constitution the delegates can build consensus about what?

    About The Conventions 2008

  • Nonetheless, when he convokes a solemn assembly of bishops -- technically called an ecumenical council ( "ecumenical" meaning here world-wide, not local) -- the church witnesses the highest instance of its teaching authority.

    Chronicle of a Council 2008

  • They are not always assembled, like the Diet of Ratisbon; but they are become so necessary that the king convokes them every year.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • She knew life, from that which begins in Brie cheese and ends at pineapples; from that which cooks and washes in the corner of a garret on an earthenware stove, to that which convokes the tribes of pot-bellied chefs and saucemakers.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • The itinerant Forum of popular participation convokes all the people, organizations, communal councils, he and she citizens in general, to the "quema de Judas".

    Burning Judas in Venezuela: fascism latest tool 2007

  • Jove, in great concern, convokes a council in the Milky Way.

    The Battle of the Books 2003

  • In the Olympic games, which he founded, and to which he convokes the whole of Greece every four years, why does he only crown the victorious athletes with wild olive?

    Plutus 2000

  • Olympic games, which he founded, and to which he convokes the whole of

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Whenever a parliament is called, the King always convokes a national synod of the clergy, to consider of the state of the church.

    A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses

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