[f. CONVENTICLE v. + -ING1.] The forming of, meeting in, or frequenting conventicles. Also attrib.
1626. Bernard, Isle of Man (ed. 10), 17. Ready to send the Hue and Cry … against privie Schismaticall conventicling and unlawfull meeting.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, XVI. lxxx. (R.). The fond schismatick and heretick fry Flatter their conventicling cells in vain.
1717. De Foe, Mem. Ch. Scot., III. 64. Beside his Sentence for Conventicling, as they called it.
