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Conventicle

Conventicle Meaning & Definition
Conventicle Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Conventicle?

[n] a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists (e.g. Quakers))
[n] a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship

Synonyms | Synonyms for Conventicle: meetinghouse

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See Also | get together | house of God | house of prayer | house of worship | meeting | place of worship

Conventicle In Webster's Dictionary

\Con*ven"ti*cle\, n. [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.

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