[f. CONVENTICLE + -ER1.] An attendant or frequenter of conventicles; opprobriously, a separatist, schismatic.
1590. Greenwood, Collect. Sclaund. Art., A ij b. Publishing them … Anabaptists … Donatists, Conuenticlers.
a. 1680. Butler, Rem. (1759), I. 181. Who us’d to shave the Grandees of their Sticklers, And crop the Worthies of their Conventiclers.
1681. Trial S. Colledge, 96. He always went to Church, was no Conventicler.
1685. Evelyn, Diary, 10 May. Those late desperate Field-Conventiclers who had done such unheard of assassinations.
1774. Pennant, Tours Scot. (1790), 117. Here I found my good old mother Church become a mere conventicler.
1862. M. Napier, Life V’ct. Dundee, II. 212. A glorification of these very Conventiclers.
