Associations to the word «Conventicle»

Adjective

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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope