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- Dictionaryconventicle/kənˈvɛntɪk(ə)l/
noun
- 1. a secret or unlawful religious meeting, typically of nonconformists. historical
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A conventicle originally meant "an assembly" and was frequently used by ancient writers to mean "a church." At a semantic level, conventicle is a Latinized synonym of the Greek word for church, and references Jesus' promise in Matthew 18:20, "Where two or three are met together in my name." Wikipedia