convocate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin convocatus, past participle of convocare (“to convocate”). Doublet of convoke.

Verb

convocate (third-person singular simple present convocates, present participle convocating, simple past and past participle convocated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To call together (people); to convoke.
   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The VI. [Supposition] that in Fact the Roman Bishops Continually from Saint Peter’s Time have Enjoyed and Exercised this Sovereign Power]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 275:

     To the Apoſtolical authority (ſaid Pope Adrian I.) by our Lord's command, and by the merits of Saint Peter, and by the decrees of the Holy Canons and of the Venerable Fathers, a right and ſpecial povver of convocating Synods hath many vviſe been committed; […]

   • 1694, George Dawson, Origo Legum:

     A General Synod was when all the Bishops of every Diocess of the whole Empire were Convocated by the Emperour

References

• “convocate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

convocate

1. inflection of convocare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

convocate f pl

1. feminine plural of convocato

Latin

Verb

convocāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of convocō

Spanish

Verb

convocate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of convocar combined with te