Definition of "convocation" [con•vo•ca•tion]

• 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)
• 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. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "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."