Convocation

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of convoking.
  • noun. A group of people convoked, especially the members of a college or university community who are assembled for a ceremony.
  • noun. A clerical assembly of the Anglican Church similar to a synod but assembling only when called.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An assembly of the clergy and representative laity of a section of a diocese of the Episcopal Church.
  • noun. The district represented at such an assembly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of calling together or assembling by summons.
  • noun. An assembly.
  • noun. [capitalized] An assembly of the clergy of the Church of England for the settlement of certain ecclesiastical affairs.
  • noun. In the University of Cambridge, England, an assembly of the senate out of term time.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of calling or assembling by summons.
  • noun. An assembly or meeting.
  • noun. An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
  • noun. An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of calling or assembling by summons.
  • noun. An assembly or meeting.
  • noun. An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
  • noun. An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act of convoking
  • noun. a group gathered in response to a summons
  • Word Usage
    "For my Yankee readers, most of whom know not the term convocation, it's a word used for the ceremonies of entering and leaving university ... in other words a fancy-pants greeting and a graduation that is conducted primarily in Latin."
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