conventicle in English

noun
1
a secret or unlawful religious meeting, typically of people with nonconformist views.
Despite the attempts to prevent unlawful conventicles , the Baptists, Quakers, and other radicals were not to be uprooted.

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4. 1 synonym for Conventicle: meetinghouse

5. Conventicle †meeting, assembly, esp

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7. 1 synonym for Conventicle: meetinghouse

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9. Conventicle. kon-vent′i-kl, n

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13. Conventicle n noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc

14. A Conventicle Preacher before the Justices, painting by Robert Inerarity Herdman The Conventicle Act 1664 was an Act of the Parliament of England (16 Charles II c

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16. The Conventicle is down, but most certainly not out! As I've mentioned here before, we are planning on launching an expanded Conventicle site, with a wealth of puritan-related resources

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18. Conventicle definition: a secret or unauthorized assembly for worship Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

19. Unlike the Resistance, not much is known about the Conventicle, their numbers and organization

20. The Conventicle was the second outcast group, and also the most secretive one

21. Antonyms for Conventicle include dispersal, disbandment, dispersion, division, scattering, separation, dissipation, parting, dissolution and segmentation

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24. To belong to or meet in a Conventicle; practise the holding of Conventicles for religious worship.

25. Synonyms for Conventicle include assembly hall, building, church, meetinghouse, gathering, assembly, meeting, congress, congregation and convention

26. Stephan had practiced Conventicle Pietism in Germany and had influenced Walther and others in this direction

27. Other articles where Conventicle Act is discussed: Protestantism: The Restoration (1660–85): The Conventicle Act of 1664 punished any person over 16 years of age for attending a religious meeting not conducted according to The Book of Common Prayer

28. A small meeting house or chapel for a religious assembly, esp of Nonconformists or Dissenters Collins Explanation of Conventicle

29. Autem Cackletub obsolete Any general meeting place of dissenters of a given denomination of the (Christian) church; a conventicle

30. Conventicle comes to us from Latin conventiculum and ultimately from convenire, meaning "to assemble." Conventiculum means "place of assembly" (it was applied in particular to Roman Christian meetinghouses) or simply "assembly." The English "Conventicle" also originally meant "assembly."

31. In 1664, what was called the Conventicle act was passed, decreeing that if any person above 16 years of age, was present at any

32. At the first approach of the party, many who were at the Conventicle did retreat to a marsh ground close by where it

33. Conventicle definition: a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship synonyms: meeting, get together Synonym.com is the web's best resource for English synonyms, antonyms, and definitions

34. What I shall attempt here is an analysis of the enforcement of two statutes, the Conventicle Acts of 1664 and 1670, in a limited number of counties over a confined period

35. The Act imposed a fine on any person who attended a Conventicle (any religious assembly other than the Church of England) of five shillings for the first offence and ten shillings for a second offence.

36. The term Conventicle is said by some to have been first applied in England to the schools of Wickliffe, and has been since used in a way of reproach for those assemblies which dissent from the established church

37. Upon intelligence that on Sunday the last of Feb there was a field Conventicle to be kept somewhere near to Bathgate, a party was sent out to look after it, who accordingly did fall in with them near to the above mentioned place

38. 12, § 2, enacts that if any person ecclesiastical, or which shall have an ecclesiastical living, shall Advisedly maintain or affirm any doctrine directly contrary or repugnant to any of the said articles, and by conventicle before the bishop of the diocese, or the ordinary, or before the queen'

39. Conventicle (n.) late 14c., "an assembly or gathering," from Latin conventiculum "a small assembly," diminutive of conventus "assembly," originally past participle of convenire "unite, be suitable, agree, assemble," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + venire "to come" (from PIE root *gwa- "to go, come").