convene

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.

To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.

The Parliament of Scotland now convened.

Faint, underneath, the household fowls convene.

To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke; to summon.

To summon judicially to meet or appear.

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.