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conˈventical, a. rare.
Also erron. -ticle.
[f. L. convent-us + -ic + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to a convent, conventual. ‘Conventical prior: the same as an abbot’ (Ogilvie).
1765Sterne Tr. Shandy vii. xxi, The gardener..had mortgaged a month of his conventical wages in a borachio or leathern cask of wine. 1784Unfort. Sensibility II. 107 If hereafter I should resolve upon a conventicle life.
2. Of or pertaining to a conventicle.
1872J. H. Newman Disc. & Arguments 257 Sir Robert [Peel] breaks out into almost conventical eloquence.
Hence conˈventically adv.
1840New Monthly Mag. LX. 321, ‘I was reading my blessed bible’..said Tim, looking conventically. |