convocation

IPA: kɑnvʌkˈeɪʃʌn

The act of calling or assembling by summons.
An assembly or meeting.
(ecclesiastical) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted.
(collective) A flock of eagles.

Examples of "convocation" in Sentences

Their convocation was the parliament of German infidelity.
Eastern they're scheduled to have, what, it's being called a convocation tomorrow?
"congregation"; in convocation for worship, where especially love, order, and harmony should prevail.
The president is just one among a number of speakers who are going to speak today at what is being called a convocation there.
James Horrocks, President of William and Mary College and Commissary to the Bishop of London, called a convocation of the clergy.
Small groups of students are filtering by me, all headed directly for the coliseum, where the convocation is scheduled to start in couple of hours.
In which respect I have returned my dutiful acknowledgement, which I beseech you to present, when you shall call a convocation, about some matter of greater moment.
The man who sent this e-mail to the bishops says that he had this allegedly had an encounter with Reverend Robinson during what's called a convocation a few years ago.
When they were slow to yield, he called a convocation of the people and aroused them to a due sense of the wrong they had been enduring, and laid bare the sins of the rulers and nobles.
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.