conventicler
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From conventicle + -er.
Noun
[edit]conventicler (plural conventiclers)
- One who supports or frequents conventicles.
- [1682], [John] Dryden, Religio Laici or A Laymans Faith. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
- I fear 'tis unavoidable if the conventiclers be permitted still to scatter. A man may be suffered to quote an adversary to our religion when he speaks truth
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “conventicler”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)