conventicles

Married women taken at "conventicles," were sentenced to twelve months 'imprisonment.

A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852

The government took strong measures for suppressing dissenters 'meetings or "conventicles;" and the poor Quakers, although not at all implicated in the disturbance, suffered more severely than any others.

Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

The government took strong measures for suppressing dissenters 'meetings or "conventicles;" and the poor Quakers, although not at all implicated in the disturbance, suffered more severely than any others.

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

The government took strong measures for suppressing dissenters 'meetings or "conventicles;" and the poor Quakers, although not at all implicated in the disturbance, suffered more severely than any others.

Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

We were imagism, cubism, the conventicles and sects respected now by credulous universities.

June « 2009 « Sentence first 2009

We were imagism, cubism, the conventicles and sects respected now by credulous universities.

Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies 2009

If she will merely submit to the lobotomy, have the microchip installed and join us in our secret conventicles where we drink the blood of Ronald Reagan while chanting the sacred syllables "ohhhhh-BAHHHH-mahhhhh" it would all become clear to her.

Clinton Spokesperson Rules Out Pursuit Of Obama's Pledged Delegates 2009

Another worthy of the same school, and nearly the same views of the military character, is Sir James Turner, a soldier of fortune, who rose to considerable rank in the reign of Charles II., had a command in Galloway and Dumfries-shire, for the suppression of conventicles, and was made prisoner by the insurgent Covenanters in that rising which was followed by the battle of Pentland.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

I've been to many other conventicles since then and am still, at 60, sorting things out.

Deliver Us from ????: Assembly of God, Part 4 Anne Johnson 2008

In the second place, though everyone is to be given liberty to speak out his opinion, yet great conventicles are to be forbidden.

A Political Treatise 2007