Look up: Conventicle


  1. Conventicle
    A conventicle is a small, unofficial and unofficiated meeting of laypeople, to discuss religious issues in a non-threatening, intimate manner. ==England== In England there were three acts of parliament passed to coerce people to attend Church of England services and to prohibit unofficiated meeting...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventicle

  2. conventicle
    [n] - a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship 2. [n] - a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists (e.g. Quakers))
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=conventicle

  3. Conventicle
    Con·ven'ti·cle noun [ Latin conventiculum , dim. of conventus : confer French conventicule . See Convent , noun ] 1. A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly. « They are...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/152

  4. conventicle
    meetinghouse noun a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers)
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=conventicle

  5. conventicle
    noun a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=conventicle

  6. Conventicle
    • (n.) A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly. • (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 as...
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  7. conventicle
    (from the article `Protestantism`) ...of God—the whole Bible, not merely the pericopes (biblical texts used in a set sequence in worship services)—must be made known widely through ... ...Saxon immigrants under Martin Stephan and Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther also arrived in 1839 and sett...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/136

  8. conventicle
    conventicle 1. A religious meeting or assembly of a private, clandestine, or illegal kind. 2. A meeting for the exercise of religion other than that which is sanctioned by the law.
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2691/3

  9. conventicle
    1. a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship
    2. a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists (e.g. Quakers))

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  10. Conventicle
    A conventicle is a private assembly or meeting for the exercise of religion. Historically, the term was specially applied to meetings of petty sects and dissenters in the statutes of the time of Charles II.
    Found op http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AC1.HTM

  11. conventicle
    1) Get together 2) Meeting
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/conventicle/1

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