Conventicle

Conventicle - Other Definitions

• (n.) A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.
  
  
• (n.) An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.