convene

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French convenir, from Latin convenio, convenire (“come together”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from the root *gʷem-.

verb

1. (intransitive) To come together; to meet; to unite.
2. (intransitive) To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.
   The Parliament of Scotland now convened. 1670, Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King James
3. (transitive) To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.
4. (transitive) To summon judicially to meet or appear.
5. (transitive, with "on" or "upon") To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.
   To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.