Associations to the word «Conventicle»

Wiktionary

CONVENTICLE, noun. A secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting
CONVENTICLE, noun. The place where such a meeting is held
CONVENTICLE, noun. A Quaker meetinghouse

Dictionary definition

CONVENTICLE, noun. A secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship.
CONVENTICLE, noun. A building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne