1) Assemblage 2) Meetinghouse
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1) Christian term 2) Get together 3) Meeting
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- a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship
- a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists (e.g. Quakers))
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A conventicle is a small, unofficial and unofficiated religious meeting of laypeople. ==England== In England there were three acts of parliament passed to coerce people to attend Church of England services and to prohibit unofficiated meeting of laypeople: The Conventicle Act of 1593 lasted for just one parliament and allowed for the imprisonment ...
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secret or illegal church assembly
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• (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 assembled were heretics or schismatics.Conventicle: ...
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(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 settled near St. Louis, Missouri, to becom...
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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 commanded to abstain from all conventicles
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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.
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n] - a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship 2. [n] - a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists (e.g. Quakers))
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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.
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meetinghouse noun a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers)
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a secret or unauthorized meeting, esp. for religious worship, as those held by Protestant dissenters in England in the 16th and 17th centuries. · a place of meeting or assembly, esp. a Nonconformist meeting house. · a meeting or assembly.
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