[f. prec. sb. Formerly accented co·nventi:cle.]
† 1. trans. To form (persons) into a conventicle or irregular assembly, to band together. Obs.
1597–1602. W. Riding Sessions Rolls (Yorks. Archæol. Assoc.), 76. Uprore of people … raised and conventicled within the saide towne.
† 2. To convert (a place) into a conventicle. Obs.
1683. O. U., Parish Ch. No Conventicles, 34. Their little Variations about Modes … will not be of validity to conventicle or disconventicle Parochial Churches.
3. intr. To meet in a conventicle; to hold or frequent conventicles.
1659. Fuller, App. Inj. Innoc. (1840), 343. If factious people should, in peaceable times, against lawful authority, conventicle in a barn or stable.
1670. Marvell, Corr., cxxxvii. Wks. 1872–5, II. 307. That one Fox, a teacher of some fanaticall people in Wiltshire, did conventicle there.
1680. G. Hickes, Spirit of Popery, 69. They [the Scotch] began to Conventicle in … formidable numbers … in the Fields.
