Conventicle

kon-vent′i-kl, n. applied in contempt to a meeting for worship of di enters 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 . [L. conventiculum , a secret meeting of monks, dim. of convent us .]