Convening Synonyms and Antonyms

To demand to appear, come, or assemble
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. summoning
  2. mustering
  3. convoking
  4. calling
Bring together; meet
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. convoking
  2. gathering
  3. summoning
  4. mustering
  5. calling
  6. collecting
  7. uniting
  8. sitting
  9. assembling
  10. rallying
  11. grouping
  12. opening
  13. meeting
  14. clustering
Antonyms:
  1. dissembling
  2. cancelling
  3. adjourning
  4. dispersing
To cause to come together formally; convoke:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. calling
The act of convening
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. convention

Convening Sentence Examples

  • Julius adroitly checkmated the cardinals by convening a general council, which was held in the Lateran.

  • It is from this time that we find the popes in moments of crisis transporting themselves to Capetian territory, installing their governments and convening their councils there, and from that place of refuge fulminating with impunity against the internal and external foe.

  • The first newspaper of the colony, written in Dutch and English, was published in 1824, and its appearance marked an era not only in the literary but in the political history of the colony, since it drew to a crisis the disputes which had arisen between the colonists and the governor, Lord Charles Somerset, who had issued a decree prohibiting all persons from convening or attending public meetings.

  • He persuaded both the League and King George of the necessity of convening a National Assembly for the revision of the Constitution, as the only safe and satisfactory way out of the dangerous situation.

  • The officiating judge advocate is usually the secretary of the flagofficer convening the court-martial or some other officer of the accountancy branch.

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