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conventicular

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con⋅ven⋅ti⋅cle

[kuhn-ven-ti-kuhl]
–noun
1. a secret or unauthorized meeting, esp. for religious worship, as those held by Protestant dissenters in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
2. a place of meeting or assembly, esp. a Nonconformist meeting house.
3. Obsolete. a meeting or assembly.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L conventiculum a small assembly. See convent, -i-, -cle 1


con⋅ven⋅ti⋅cler, noun
con⋅ven⋅tic⋅u⋅lar [kon-ven-tik-yuh-ler] , adjective
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