conventicling

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kənˈvɛntɪk(ə)lɪŋ/

Verb

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conventicling

  1. present participle and gerund of conventicle

Adjective

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conventicling (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      conventicling schools [] set up and taught secretly by fanatics

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for conventicling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)