Crossword-Solution: CONVENTICLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Conventicle | n. | A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly. |
| Conventicle | 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. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “CONVENTICLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DISSENTERS, meeting of | 1 answer |
| NONCONFORMISTS, religious meeting of | 1 answer |
| RELIGIOUS meeting of nonconformists | 1 answer |
| RELIGIOUS meeting | 3 answers |
| A BUILDING FOR RELIGIOUS ASSEMBLY | 11 answers |
| A SECRET UNAUTHORIZED MEETING FOR RELIGIOUS WORSHIP | 11 answers |
| HOLY of Holies, containment of the | 41 answers |
| holy place | 44 answers |
| Gathering | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with CONVENTICLE (5)
The boy, already much employed in secret by his mother, was the most apt hand conceivable to run upon a message, to carry food to lurking fugitives, or to stand sentry on the skyline above a conventicle.
During the covenanting troubles, when a night conventicle was held upon the Pentlands, the farm doors stood hospitably open till the morning; the dresser was laden with cheese and bannocks, milk and brandy; and the worshippers kept slipping down from the hill between two exercises, as couples visit the supper-room between two dances of a modern ball.
Then, thought I, what is to do here? So I went up close, but very softly, to the side of the house to listen, thinking, as indeed it fell out, that there I might light upon some Diabolonian conventicle.
The Sunday following, there was a conventicle of Protestants in the woods of Altefage upon Mount Bouges; where there stood up one Seguier--Spirit Seguier, as his companions called him--a wool-carder, tall, black-faced, and toothless, but a man full of prophecy.
This private conventicle was afterwards converted into a magnificent church; and the credulity of the succeeding age was prepared to believe the miracles and visions, which attested the presence, or at least the protection, of the Mother of God.