CONVENTICLE Synonyms

• an academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting

• an address to an academic meeting or seminar

• a confidential or secret meeting

• a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda)

• an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members

• a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic

• a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

• an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together

• the act of congregating

• a meeting of elected or appointed representatives

• the legislature of the United States government

• a national legislative assembly

• the social act of assembling for some common purpose

• a large formal assembly

• something regarded as a normative example

• (diplomacy) an international agreement

• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

• the act of convening

• a group gathered in response to a summons

• the act of convoking

• a body serving in an administrative capacity

• (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine

• a meeting of people for consultation

• a public meeting or assembly for open discussion

• a public facility to meet for open discussion

• a group of persons together in one place

• the social act of assembling

• the act of gathering something

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

• (informal) a quick private conference

• a disorganized and densely packed crowd

• crowd or draw together

• crouch or curl up

• a formally arranged gathering

• a small informal social gathering

• a casual or unexpected convergence

• the social act of assembling for some common purpose

• the act of joining together as one

• a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)

• a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm

• the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort

• a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness

• an automobile race run over public roads

• (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes

• gather

• call to arms; of military personnel

• gather or bring together

• return to a former condition

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• any meeting for an exchange of ideas

• a course offered for a small group of advanced students

• the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

• the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)

• a meeting of heads of governments

• reach the summit (of a mountain)

• a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

• a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers)