convenable2 (konvenabl)

[ convenablyt (kon' vệ-na-bli), adv. Suitably; conveniently. Lydgate. convene (kon-vēn'), v.; pret. and pp. convened, ppr. convening. [= F. convenir = Sp. convenir = Pg. convir = It. con venire, The rays [of light] converge and convene in the eyes. Newton , Opticks. 2. To come together; meet in the same place; a emble, as persons, usually for some public purpose or the promotion of some common interest: as, the legislature will convene in January; the citizens convened in the city hall. On Wednesday, that fatal day, The people were convening . Willie's Drowned in Gamery (Child's Ballads, II. 183). =Syn. 2. To congregate, muster, gather. II. trans. 1. To cause to a emble; call together; convoke. On festivals, at those churches where the Feast of the Patron Saint is solemnized, the masters convene their Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. liv. scholars. And now the almighty father of the gods Convenes a council in the blest abodes. Pope , tr. of Statius's Thebaid, i. Frequent meetings of the whole company might be con- vened for the transaction of ordinary busine . Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 111. 2. To summon to appear, as before a public (especially a judicial) officer or an official body. By the papal canon law, clerks cannot be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge. Ayliffe, Parergon. Foker, whom the proctor knew very well,. taken,. suminarily convened and sent down from the university. Thackeray, Pen dennis, xviii. was 3. In civil law, to sue. Rapalje and Lawrence. convenee (kon-vē-nē'), n. [