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conventicle

[ kuhn-ven-ti-kuhl ]

noun

  1. a secret or unauthorized meeting, especially for religious worship, as those held by Protestant dissenters in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  2. a place of meeting or assembly, especially a Nonconformist meeting house.
  3. Obsolete. a meeting or assembly.


conventicle

/ kənˈvɛntɪkəl /

noun

  1. a secret or unauthorized assembly for worship
  2. a small meeting house or chapel for a religious assembly, esp of Nonconformists or Dissenters
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • conˈventicler, noun
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Other Words From

  • con·venti·cler noun
  • con·ven·tic·u·lar [kon-ven-, tik, -y, uh, -ler], adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of conventicle1

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin conventiculum a small assembly. See convent, -i-, -cle 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of conventicle1

C14: from Latin conventiculum a meeting, from conventus; see convent
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Example Sentences

In 1695 we hear of a conventicle in Bungay, with a preacher with a regularly paid stipend of £40 a year.

While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle.

In the height of his resentment he addressed first one, and then another, "What, have you been to the conventicle?"

It sounded like the cant of the conventicle to ears unaccustomed to the language of piety from the lips of politicians.

I tell you no; I take it he is an Englishman, and not a conventicle-man.

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