Definitions for conventicle
kənˈvɛn tɪ kəlcon·ven·ti·cle

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conventiclenoun

   a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship

2. conventicle, meetinghousenoun

   a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conventiclenoun

   a secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting

2. conventiclenoun

   the place where such a meeting is held

3. conventiclenoun

   a Quaker meetinghouse

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Conventiclenoun

   Etymology: conventiculum, Latin.

   1. An assembly; a meeting.

   They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever; even out of the church, to have nothing to do with publick business. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

   2. An assembly for worship. Generally used in an ill sense, including heresy or schism.

   It behoveth, that the place where God shall be served by the whole church be a publick place, for the avoiding of privy conventicles, which, covered with pretence of religion, may serve unto dangerous practices. Richard Hooker, b. v. sect. 12.

   A sort of men, who are content to be stiled of the church of England, who perhaps attend its service in the morning, and go with their wives to a conventicle in the afternoon. Jonathan Swift.

   3. A secret assembly; an assembly where conspiracies are formed.

   Ay, all of you have laid your heads together,
   (Myself had notice of your conventicles )
   And all to make away my guiltless life. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Conventicle

   A conventicle originally signified no more than an assembly, and was frequently used by ancient writers for a church. At a semantic level conventicle is only a good Latinized synonym of the Greek word church, and points to Jesus' promise in Matthew 18:20, "Where two or three are met together in my name." It came to be applied specifically to meetings of religious associations, particularly private and secret gatherings for worship. Later it became a term of deprecation or reproach, implying that those of whom it was used were in opposition to the ruling ecclesiastical authorities; for example, it was applied to a cabal of mutinous monks in a convent or monastery. Ultimately it came to mean religious meetings of dissenters from an established church, held in places that were not recognized as specially intended for public worship or for the exercise of religious functions. It implied that a condition of affairs obtained in which the State made a distinction between a form or forms of religion whose practice and propagation were authorized by statute, and such as were expressly prohibited by enactment. This usage has received legal sanction in Britain.

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1. conventicle

   A conventicle is a small, unofficial and often secret religious meeting or gathering, usually held by a non-established religious group. It refers to gatherings for worship or religious purposes that were held separately from the established church or religion. The term is often used in connection to Protestant groups during the reformation or any religious assembly held in private homes or other places rather than in established churches or houses of worship.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Conventiclenoun

   a small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly

2. Conventiclenoun

   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

3. Etymology: [L. conventiculum, dim. of conventus: cf. F. conventicule. See Convent, n.]

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1. Conventicle

   A conventicle is a small, unofficial and unofficiated meeting of laypeople, to discuss religious issues in a non-threatening, intimate manner.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.]

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1. • Meeting
   • Place Of Worship

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of conventicle in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of conventicle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of conventicle in a Sentence

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=conventicle
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Conventicle
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=conventicle
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventicle
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conventicle
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=conventicle
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=conventicle