meeting-placen.

1553 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 149 Nocht half ane Scottis myle fra the said metynge place.

1634 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent 11 His guts are the rendezvous or meeting-place or burse for the beasts of the fields, the fowles of the ayre, and fishes of the sea.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 208 The Parading Place that is before it, serves also for a publick meeting Place.

1771 F. Gentleman Tobacconist ii. i. 40 My shop will be the meeting place of gallants.

1818 H. H. Milman Samor (ed. 2) IX. 264 God will give The lov'd on earth another meeting place.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 338 The organ thus lies at the meeting-place of the hypochondriac, right lumbar, and epigastric regions.

1930 P. R. Leach That Man Dawes x. 190 The society was not secret, had no passwords or meeting places and was non-political.

1960 M. Sharp Something Light vi. 49 The meeting-place for intellectuals was the Free Library.

1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Biii^v They will include it [sc. the name of the Church] onely in their couenticles, and bounde it euen in Barnes, which many times they make their meeting place.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 7 Feb. (1970) I. 44 I saw Monk's soldiers abuse Billing and all the Quakers that were at a meeting-place there.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 58 The Church is neate and pretty..here is also a good large Meeteing place.

1902 Daily Chron. 2 Oct. 7/1 There are hundreds of these little meeting-places and prayer-rooms scattered about in the side streets and alleys.

1984 Christadelphian May 180/2 The realisation of the Lord's presence..should encourage us to do the best we can in removing ‘unseemliness’..from our surroundings, at home or in the meeting-place.