Noun:

இரகசிய மதக் கூட்டம் கூடும் இடம் (அ) கட்டிடம்,

conventicles's Usage Examples:

Outrages on conformist ministers were frequent, and conventicles were accompanied by armed men.

James tried to suppress the general irritation by a proclamation against conventicles, and a threat to take away the courts of law from Edinburgh, if people did not go to church on Christmas day.

We order that the adherents of this faith be called Catholic Christians; we brand all the senseless followers of the other religions with the infamous name of heretics, and forbid their conventicles assuming the name of churches.

"We order that the adherents of this faith be called Catholic Christians; we brand all the senseless followers of the other religions with the infamous name of heretics, and forbid their conventicles assuming the name of churches.

and, hating manual labour, go about begging, holding conventicles and posing among simple people as interpreters of the Scriptures.

"In 1634 the justices of the peace were ordered to enter houses to search for persons holding conventicles and bring them before the commissioners.

Besides such regular churches in London and the provinces under the early Stuarts, there were also numerous "conventicles" composed of very humble folk, such as the eleven about London which Bishop Joseph Hall (1574-1656) reports in 1631, and which he states in 1640 had grown to some eighty.

We hear of crowded Calvinist conventicles in Little Poland from 1545 onwards, and Calvinism continued to spread throughout the kingdom during the latter years of Sigismund I.

The gentry, who had proclaimed their inability to suppress conventicles, were ordered to sign a bond making them responsible for their tenants, and were bound over to keep the king's peace by " law burrows," a method common in private life but unheard of between monarch and people.

In Mary's reign (1555) the licences were withdrawn, the queen or her advisers deeming the game an excuse for "unlawful assemblies, conventicles, seditions and conspiracies.

They simply formed small conventicles within the Church.

Synonyms:

meeting, get together,

Antonyms:

disassembly, divide, idle,