The frequent convocations of military assemblies, far from testifying to political liberty, was simply a means of communicating the emperor's commands to the various feudal groups.
Neither does it afford the slightest foundation for the inference that, at the time when it was written, these ecclesiastical convocations were unknown in Africa and Italy.
Such Convocations all our ills descry, And promise much, but no true cure apply.
The following month, August, 1845, the Prussian cabinet-order appeared, prohibiting all convocations of the Friends of Light.
Their convocations were finally restricted by the civil authority.
The Convocations of York and Canterbury united in condemnation of his work.
This treatise had been solemnly approved by the Convocations of Canterbury and York, and might therefore be considered as an authoritative exposition of the doctrine of the Church of England.
The word is generally used in English for all kinds of congregations or convocations assembled for administrative and deliberative purposes.
Convocations were summoned by the archbishops for other purposes besides taxation, and the ordinary legislative business of the Church was carried on in them.
National councils of the Church, though held on the occasion of legatine visits, consisted only of bishops, and had fallen into disuse; and the clerical grants were made by the convocations of the two provinces separately.
Again, in 1314 Edward ordered the archbishops to summon the convocations of their provinces to treat about an aid.
We have no need of such convocationsas sometime we have had.
Meantime, however, the archbishops of Arles and of Aix urged the prompt execution of the sentence, and the convocations of clergy offered to defray the expense of the levy of troops needed to carry it into effect.
Madam, I began to reason with the Secretary, whom I take to be a far better dialectician than your Grace is, that all convocations are not unlawful.
We have no need of such convocations as sometimes we have had.
But how comes he to number the want of synods in the Gallican church among the grievances of that Concordate, and as a mark of their slavery, since he reckons allConvocations of the Clergy in England to be useless and dangerous?
The Cambridge scholars and both Convocations declared themselves in the same sense.
He no longer wished for a recognition from the Pope; he laid the question before the two Convocations of the English Church-provinces.
The two earliest of these convocations were summoned to complete the work of the reformation of the Church of England, which had been begun by Henry VIII.
Several attempts have been made to promote legislation to enable the convocations to reform their constitutions and to enable them to unite for special purposes; in 1905 a bill was introduced into the House of Lords.
On all of these occasions the convocations worked hand in hand with the parliament of the realm under a licence and with the assent of the crown.
O that our Convocations may hear and heed such warning words, and stand firm, whatever trial comes!
With respect to the Convocations sitting at Westminster.
In other times there were convocations where the spirit of rivalry and comparison appeared, but in them few were invited to participate, and only a limited number of spectators could afford to attend.
The Convocationsof Canterbury and York submitted, as did also the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Their objection was to what was done more than to the way in which it was done; and Sir Thomas More would have fought the Reformation quite as strenuously had it been effected by the Convocations of Canterbury and York.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convocations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
