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Definition conventicle

Etymology

From Late Middle English conventicle, conventicule (“a gathering, meeting (especially a secret or unlawful one); (derogatory) a church”), from Latin conventiculum (“assembly; meeting (or the place involved); association”), from conventus (“assembled, convened”) + -culum (“suffix forming diminutives of nouns”). Conventus is the perfect passive participle of conveni? (“to assemble, convene, meet together”), from con- (“suffix meaning ‘together, with’”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?óm (“along, at, next to, with”)) + veni? (“to approach, come”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *g?em- (“to step”) + *-yéti (“suffix forming intransitive, imperfective verbs”)).

Noun

conventicle (plural conventicles)

1. A secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.
2. The place where such a meeting is held.
3. A Quaker meetinghouse.

Verb

conventicle (third-person singular simple present conventicles, present participle conventicling, simple past and past participle conventicled)

1. To hold a secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.

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