Meanings of convoked for in English

We think, therefore, that the church should be privately convoked for deliberation.

The states-general were convoked for the 15th of October following.

A Constituent Assembly was convoked for the 5th of February 1849.

The Diet, which had not been convoked for five years, was to meet on the 28th of May.

It appears that he was solicited by General Schuyler to be present at a numerous meeting of Indians, convoked for a treaty.

An immense meeting was convoked for the purpose of carefully examining the great cotton business, and the perils created by the present crisis.

When the winding off has to be done in a family it is done in one evening-allfriends being convoked for that work.

But no such assembly had been convoked for almost two centuries, and only scholars and lawyers knew what the old Estates-General had been.

It was deliberately resolved at last, by a special council convoked for the purpose, "to persuade the rebels to make peace."

All the provinces were now convoked for the 7th of August (1559), at Ghent, there to receive the parting communication and farewell of the King.