convene

1. (intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.Examples: "In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.Examples: "The Parliament of Scotland now convened."; "Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene."intransitive

3. (transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.transitive

4. (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.transitive

5. (transitive, with "on" or "upon") To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.Examples: "To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings."transitive