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    convocation


    1. The finality of the register is your convocation to participate and to enjoy the benefits of the new systematics


    2. convocation with simple majority of the partners and in second


    3. convocation with any number


    4. determined in the notice of the convocation of the General


    5. 24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation


    6. 16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh


    7. (The word "convocation" is Strong's H4744 and is miqra' and means a sacred


    8. 3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is


    9. memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation


    10. 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and

    11. Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, “In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing [of trumpets], a holy convocation


    12. Paul was fresh from his Arabian convocation with Jesus Christ


    13. It is vain to deny that in the actual working machinery and administration of our Church, in its arrangements, plans, schemes, and normal organization, the lay members have comparatively no place at all! Do the bishops meet in solemn conclave at Lambeth Palace to consider the state of our Zion? There is no place for the laity,- Does Convocation hold its annual debates? There is no representation of the laity,- Does the bishop of a diocese make his annual arrangements for the work of his See? Has he any difficult problem to solve about discipline or the best mode of dealing with some criminous clerk? He has no council of laymen,- Has a vacant living or incumbency to be filled up? The appointment is made without the slightest regard to the opinion of the parishioners


    14. How few laymen know anything about Church work in their own diocese! How few care one jot for Convocation! How few could tell you, if their lives depended on it, who are the proctors of their diocese! How few understand the meaning of the great doctrinal controversies by which their Church is almost rent asunder! How few exhibit as much personal interest or anxiety about them, as a Roman spectator would have exhibited about the fight of a couple of gladiators in the arena of the Coliseum! How few could tell you anything more than this, "that there is some squabble among the parsons; and they don't pretend to understand it!"�This is a melancholy picture; but I fear it is a sadly correct one


    15. I am afraid it is vain to hope for any large measure of Convocation reform


    16. This alone is an immense and intolerable defect, and completely prevents the laity, as a rule, taking any interest in the proceedings of Convocation


    17. ) The simple fact that the lay people have at present neither voice nor place in the English Convocation, is enough to show that it is an institution totally unsuited to the age, and behind the times


    18. Of course I do not forget that a house of laymen has been called into existence in the province of Canterbury, with the express purpose of acting as a consultative body, and an assistant to Convocation, and it has been resolved to form a similar house of laymen at York


    19. Convocation, on the contrary, is one of the oldest legal institutions in the realm


    20. is a kind of convocation address the teacher gives to his students

    21. The convocation is in two weeks


    22. invitation from his son to attend his convocation? Screw him ,I said to myself


    23. fanning themselves with the convocation brochures


    24. I had missed my last convocation as I had overslept


    25. our parents will meet at the convocation and things will be smooth


    26. convocation with Him last time before He sent you to this world through


    27. Your last convocation with Him was the day in which He entrusted you


    28. She let her eyes slide over the gaggle of courtiers and local grandes standing about pretending to listen raptly to the convocation


    29. Then came Convocation


    30. Anne wondered why Gilbert should have sent her flowers for Convocation

    31. Yet just before she left Patty's Place for Convocation she flung Roy's violets aside and put Gilbert's lilies-of-the-valley in their place


    32. "I heard today that Gilbert Blythe's engagement to Christine Stuart was to be announced as soon as Convocation was over


    33. "The Congress, considering the timidity of the single Powers or other causes might delay indefinitely the convocation of the above-mentioned Congress, is of opinion that the Government which should first dismiss any considerable number of soldiers would confer a signal benefit on Europe and mankind, because it would oblige other Governments, urged on by public opinion, to follow its example, and by the moral force of this accomplished fact, would have increased rather than diminished the condition of its national defence


    34. This Congress, considering that the timidity of a single Power or other cause might delay indefinitely the convocation of the above-mentioned Congress, is of the opinion that the Government which should first dismiss any considerable number of soldiers would confer a signal benefit on Europe and mankind, because it would oblige other Governments, urged on by public opinion, to follow its example, and by the moral force of this accomplished fact would have increased rather than diminished the conditions of its national defense


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    Synonyms for "convocation"

    calling together convocation celebration rally convention assembly meeting session

    "convocation" definitions

    a group gathered in response to a summons


    the act of convoking