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be convoked
verb
To convene, to cause to assemble for a meeting.
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As rumors spread of a council to be convoked to declare the pope's infallibility, he lined up with DRated PG-13llinger in opposition.
In most areas the veche ruled both a city and its dependent villages; the heads of families in the entire region were entitled to participate in its sessions, which could be convoked by the prince, the town officials, or the citizenry.
That sejm would be convoked by the primate when the king could not attend and had no legislative powers.
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"They passed an alkali pan whereon were convoked an assembly of men's heads".
A congress of Spartan allies was convoked to discuss grievances against Athens, and the decision was taken for war.
An odd mix of panellists had been convoked – Katie Price, Alastair Campbell, Selena Scott among others – while the audience was comprised of other has-beens, wannabes and just-abouts.
The council was convoked not by an ecclesiastical authority but by the Roman emperor Constantine, who wanted the church to reach a final decision on the Arian controversy.
The fifth Lateran Council, the 18th ecumenical council (1512 17), was convoked by Pope Julius II in response to a council summoned at Pisa by a group of cardinals who were hostile to the Pope.
The third Lateran Council, the 11th ecumenical council, was convoked in 1179 by Pope Alexander III and attended by 291 bishops who studied the Peace of Venice (1177), by which the Holy Roman emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa, agreed to withdraw support from his antipope and to restore the church property he had seized.
The second Lateran Council, the 10th ecumenical council (1139), was convoked by Pope Innocent II to condemn as schismatics the followers of Arnold of Brescia, a vigorous reformer and opponent of the temporal power of the pope, and to end the schism created by the election of Anacletus II, a rival pope.
Among these gatherings were the earliest national assemblies to include representatives of towns and villages, which has caused historians to see them as early versions of what became the Estates-General, meetings of deputies representing the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners of the entire kingdom that were convoked beginning in the 14th century.
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