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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conventicle /kənˈvɛntɪk(ə)l/

▶noun historical a secret or unlawful religious meeting, typically of nonconformists.

– origin ME: from L. conventiculum ‘(place of) assembly’, dimin. of conventus ‘assembly, company’, from convenire (see convene).

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