conventicle meaning in English
n.
1.集会；【宗教】秘密集会。
2.【英史】集会(场所)。
Examples
- She became equally averse to the church and the conventicle
她对教堂和非国教教派的秘密集会处变得同样地不喜欢。 - For the first week ， whenever i looked out on the pond it impressed me like a tarn high up on the side of a mountain ， its bottom far above the surface of other lakes ， and ， as the sun arose ， i saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist ， and here and there ， by degrees ， its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed ， while the mists ， like ghosts ， were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods ， as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle
在第一个星期内，无论什么时候我凝望着湖水，湖给我的印象都好像山里的一泓龙潭，高高在山的一边，它的底还比别的湖沼的水平面高了不少，以至日出的时候，我看到它脱去了夜晚的雾衣，它轻柔的粼波，或它波平如镜的湖面，都渐渐地在这里那里呈现了，这时的雾，像幽灵偷偷地从每一个方向，退隐入森林中，又好像是一个夜间的秘密宗教集会散会了一样。 - The family continued all of the church of england till about the end of charles the second ' s reign , when some of the ministers that had been ousted for their non - conformity holding conventicles in northamp - tonshire , my uncle benjamin and father josiah adhered to them , and so continued all their lives : the rest of the family remained with the episcopal church
我们全家继续信奉英国教直到却尔斯二世在位之末期，当时有些因为不信国教而被斥逐的教堂理事者在诺坦成登夏非国教派的宗教会议，拜雅明和耶赛埃加入他们，继续过著他们的一生，其馀的家族自属于圣公会。