conventicler
(kənˈvɛntɪklə(r))
[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. |