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Date: 1400-1500
Language: French
Origin: convenir 'to come together', from Latin convenire; CONVENIENT

convene

 verb
     
con‧vene [intransitive and transitive]
if a group of people convene, or someone convenes them, they come together, especially for a formal meeting:
a report by experts convened by the National Institutes of Health
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