convene vs scatter

convene

verb
  • To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke. 

  • To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble. 

  • To make a convention; to declare a rule by convention. 

  • To come together; to meet; to unite. 

  • To summon judicially to meet or appear. 

scatter

verb
  • To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. 

  • Of a pitcher: to keep down the number of hits or walks. 

  • To deflect (radiation or particles). 

  • To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals. 

  • To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. 

  • To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow. 

  • To be dispersed upon. 

noun
  • The act of scattering or dispersing. 

  • A collection of dispersed objects. 

How often have the words convene and scatter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )