What's the difference between convocation and convocational?
Convocation
Definition:
(n.) The act of calling or assembling by summons.
(n.) An assembly or meeting.
(n.) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
(n.) An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted.
Example Sentences:
(1) All respondents believed that the AACE should meet in tandem with another national convocation, and most thought that the AACE meeting was reasonably priced but expensive of time.
(2) At the funeral will be a convocation of mullahs, rabbis and all the other medieval faiths that increasingly conspire together against modernity.
(3) This campaign is offered to women aged 50 to 65, living in Bas-Rhin (74,200 women) without individual convocations.
(4) There were certainly moments that I found more offensive than Romney's unintentionally hilarious creation of a new collective noun ("a binder of women" – like, you know, a convocation of eagles), even though it edged right up to the margins of implying actual physical harm.
(5) In November 1989, representatives from 12 States attending the Annual Convocation of Southern State Epidemiologists completed a survey to enumerate epidemiologists working in central offices of State health departments.
(6) Regarding experimental results the fibrin adhesive system has been applied in 58 clinical cases with the indications: 1. convocation of fistulas introoral or extraoral 2. as biological band 3. extraoral fixation of skin grafts, used in areas with poor possibility of other kinds of skin fixation 4. in cases with clef lip and cleft palace 5. in combination with bioceramic materials 6. in combination with lyo-dura for reconstruction of orbita-floor fractures.
(7) It is only, during a subsequent treatment survey, carried out during the season of low agricultural activity and following an official written convocation, that a compliance rate similar to that of the first survey was recorded.
(8) • Editor's note: this article originally referred to a "convocation of owls"; that collective noun correctly applies to eagles.
Convocational
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a convocation.
Example Sentences:
(1) All respondents believed that the AACE should meet in tandem with another national convocation, and most thought that the AACE meeting was reasonably priced but expensive of time.
(2) At the funeral will be a convocation of mullahs, rabbis and all the other medieval faiths that increasingly conspire together against modernity.
(3) This campaign is offered to women aged 50 to 65, living in Bas-Rhin (74,200 women) without individual convocations.
(4) There were certainly moments that I found more offensive than Romney's unintentionally hilarious creation of a new collective noun ("a binder of women" – like, you know, a convocation of eagles), even though it edged right up to the margins of implying actual physical harm.
(5) In November 1989, representatives from 12 States attending the Annual Convocation of Southern State Epidemiologists completed a survey to enumerate epidemiologists working in central offices of State health departments.
(6) Regarding experimental results the fibrin adhesive system has been applied in 58 clinical cases with the indications: 1. convocation of fistulas introoral or extraoral 2. as biological band 3. extraoral fixation of skin grafts, used in areas with poor possibility of other kinds of skin fixation 4. in cases with clef lip and cleft palace 5. in combination with bioceramic materials 6. in combination with lyo-dura for reconstruction of orbita-floor fractures.
(7) It is only, during a subsequent treatment survey, carried out during the season of low agricultural activity and following an official written convocation, that a compliance rate similar to that of the first survey was recorded.
(8) • Editor's note: this article originally referred to a "convocation of owls"; that collective noun correctly applies to eagles.