CONVENE (2)

Con‐vene″, v. t. 1. 1. To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
And now the almighty father of the gods Convenes a council in the blest abodes. Pope. 2. 2. To summon judicially to meet or appear.
By the papal canon law, clerks . . . can not be convened before any but an ecclesiastical judge. Ayliffe.