- (v.i.) General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.
- (v.i.) An agreement or contract less formal than or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
- (v.i.) An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II.
- (v.i.) The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.
- (v.i.) A meeting or an assembly of persons, especially of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political or ecclesiastical.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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