conventicle

n. 集会, 非国教徒的秘密聚会

发音

UK /kənˈvɛntɪk(ə)l/
US /kənˈvɛn(t)ək(ə)l/

词形变化

conventicles 复数 conventicles conventicled conventicles 三单 conventicling conventicling 现在分词 conventicled 过去式 conventicled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.

  2. 2.

    The place where such a meeting is held.

  3. 3.

    A Quaker meetinghouse.

v.
  1. 1.

    To hold a secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

meetinghouse

上位词 6

meeting get-together house of God house of prayer house of worship place of worship

词源

From Late Middle English conventicle, conventicule (“a gathering, meeting (especially a secret or unlawful one); (derogatory) a church”), from Latin conventiculum (“assembly; meeting (or the place involved); association”), from conventus (“assembled, convened”) + -culum (suffix forming noun diminutives), perfect passive participle of conveniō (“to assemble, convene, meet together”), from con- (“together, with”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“along, at, next to, with”)) + veniō (“to approach, come”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”) + *-yéti (suffix forming intransitive, imperfective verbs)).

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