[f. CONVENE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CONVENE; coming together, assembling, etc.
1659. Pearson, Creed (1839), 376. The same practice of convening we find continued in the following years.
1690. Locke, Govt., II. xii. Any delay of their convening might endanger the public.
1795. H. Macneill, Will & Jean, II. xx. Aye at first at the conveening, Moralized on what was right.