Definition of conventicles Conventicles
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What does conventicles mean?
Wiktionary 
- conventicles (Noun)
Plural of conventicle.
Part of speech
🔤- conventicles, noun, plural of conventicle.
WordNet
NounPlural: conventicles |
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| conventicle - a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) | ||
| meetinghouse | ||
| conventicle - a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship | ||
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Wiktionary
- conventicle (Noun)
A secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting. - conventicle (Noun)
The place where such a meeting is held. - conventicle (Noun)
A Quaker meetinghouse.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- conventicle (n.)
A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly. - conventicle (n.)
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.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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conventicle
kon-vent′i-kl, n. applied in contempt to a meeting for worship of dissenters from the Established Church, applied esp. to the field-preachings of the Presbyterian ministers in the persecutions under Charles II. and James II.: any private, clandestine, or irregular meeting.—v.i. to hold such.—n. Conven′ticler. [L. conventiculum, a secret meeting of monks, dim. of conventus.]
Part of speech
🔤- conventicle, noun, singular of conventicles.
