Conventicle

[kәn'ventikl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers).

(noun.) a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.

(n.) An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.

校對:洛丽

解釋/意思:

n. applied in contempt to a meeting for worship of dissenters from the Established Church applied esp. to the field-preachings of the Presbyterian ministers in the persecutions under Charles II. and James II.: any private clandestine or irregular meeting.—v.i. to hold such.—n. Conven′ticler.

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