convocation
开学典礼,开幕式,召集会议,开会
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- : the act of convoking.
- : the state of being convoked.
- : a group of people gathered in answer to a summons; assembly.
- : Anglican Church. either of the two provincial synods or assemblies of the clergy.
- : Protestant Episcopal Church. an assembly of the clergy of part of a diocese.the area represented at such an assembly.
- : a formal assembly at a college or university, especially for a graduation ceremony.
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The typically somber atmosphere at the bi-annual church convocation was punctuated by hollers, applause and a shout of “brill!”
I show one to my college adviser, a semi-famous poet; he has just chosen me to attend a poetry convocation in Indiana.
And know this: Despite the willfully informal name, the import of such a convocation was immense.
The new creed, called the King's Book, approved by the houses of convocation, and made the standard of English orthodoxy.
During the last year such a convocation was held at Tahlequah, the seat of the Cherokee government.
For "Convocation" one must of course, in Cambridge language, read "Senate."
He felt that his proper place was in the centre of the great events announced and begun by this convocation.
The month of December, 1563, witnessed the close of that celebrated convocation, the Council of Trent.