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conventicle
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CONVENTICLE
n.[L.] 1. An assembly or meeting; usually applied to a meeting of dissenters from the established church, for religious worship. In this sense it is used by English writers and in English statutes. Hence, an assembly, in contempt. In the United States, this word has no appropriate application, and is little used, or not at all.
2. A secret assembly or cabal; a meeting for plots.
CONVENTICLER
n.One who supports or frequents conventicles.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CONVENTICLE
Con *ven "ti *cle, n. Etym: [L. conventiculum, dim. of conventus: cf. F.conventicule. See Convent, n.]
1. A small assembly or gathering; esp. , a secret assembly. They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever. Ayliffe.
2. An assembly for religious worship; esp. , such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution. Hammond. A sort of men who. .. attend its [the curch of England's ] service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. Swift.
CONVENTICLER
CONVENTICLER Con *ven "ti *cler, n.
Defn: One who supports or frequents conventicles. Dryden.
New American Oxford Dictionary
conventicle
con ven ti cle |kənˈventikəl kənˈvɛntəkəl | ▶noun historical a secret or unlawful religious meeting, typically of people with nonconformist views. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the general sense ‘assembly, meeting, ’ particularly a clandestine or illegal one ): from Latin conventiculum ‘(place of ) assembly, ’ diminutive of conventus ‘assembly, company, ’ from the verb convenire (see convene ).
Oxford Dictionary
conventicle
conventicle |kənˈvɛntɪk (ə )l | ▶noun historical a secret or unlawful religious meeting, typically of nonconformists. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the general sense ‘assembly, meeting ’, particularly a clandestine or illegal one ): from Latin conventiculum ‘(place of ) assembly ’, diminutive of conventus ‘assembly, company ’, from the verb convenire (see convene ).
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