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conventicle n. 非国教徒的秘密聚会 非国教徒的秘密聚会 conventicle n 1: a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship 2: a building for religious assembly ( especially Nonconformists, e. g., Quakers) [ synonym: { conventicle}, { meetinghouse}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever. -- Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution. -- Hammond. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
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