单词 | conciliabule |
释义 | conciliabulen. A small private or secret assembly; a conventicle. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > [noun] > illegal or secret conciliable?1521 conciliabule1817 society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > types of > schismatic ecclesiastical council conciliable?1521 conciliabule1817 1817 H. Hunt in Cobbett's Wks. XXXII. 192 I belong to..no Clubs, no Conciliabules, no secret Associations, of all which I disapprove. 1840 J. W. Bowden Life Gregory VII I. 87 This council..was a pretended one—in ecclesiastical language a conciliabule. 1885 M. Pattison Mem. vi. 185 Haunting conciliabules, and reading fiery articles in the English Churchman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1817 |
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