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   conventicle

   /kənˈvɛntɪk(ə)l/

   noun

   • 1. a secret or unlawful religious meeting, typically of nonconformists. historical

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the general sense ‘assembly, meeting’, particularly a clandestine or illegal one): from Latin conventiculum ‘(place of) assembly’, diminutive of conventus ‘assembly, company’, from the verb convenire (see convene).

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