conventicle

/kuhn-ven-ti-kuhl/US // kənˈvɛn tɪ kəl //UK // (kənˈvɛntɪkəl) //

纪念品,纪念册,纪念碑,纪念日

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a secret or unauthorized meeting, especially for religious worship, as those held by Protestant dissenters in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- : a place of meeting or assembly, especially a Nonconformist meeting house.
- : Obsolete. a meeting or assembly.

In 1695 we hear of a conventicle in Bungay, with a preacher with a regularly paid stipend of £40 a year.
While we were talking came by several poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle.
In the height of his resentment he addressed first one, and then another, "What, have you been to the conventicle?"
It sounded like the cant of the conventicle to ears unaccustomed to the language of piety from the lips of politicians.
I tell you no; I take it he is an Englishman, and not a conventicle-man.