convene

verb5

1. •
   To come together; to meet; to unite.

   • In short-sighted men […] the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. — 1704
2. •
   To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.

   • The Parliament of Scotland now convened. — 1670
3. •
   To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.
4. •
   To summon judicially to meet or appear.
5. •
   To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention.

   • To forestall any problems, we convened on the rule that all the database records would avoid containing certain literal strings.