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Conventicle \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.
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They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles
of men whatsoever. --Ayliffe.
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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.
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The first Christians could never have had recourse
to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven
to them by the violence of persecution. --Hammond.
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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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