con|ven´ti|cler

con|ven´ti|cler
con|ven|ti|cle «kuhn VEHN tuh kuhl», noun.
1. a secret or unauthorized meeting, especially for religious worship.
2. a secret religious meeting or assembly of certain Protestants who dissented from the doctrines and forms of the Church of England during the 1500's and 1600's.
3. the place of such a meeting.
4. Obsolete. an assembly or meeting.
[< Latin conventiculum (diminutive) < conventus, -ūs assembly < convenīre; see etym. under convene (Cf.convene)]
con|ven´ti|cler, noun.

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