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1564 A. Bacon tr. J. Jewel Apol. Churche Eng. sig. Pi The Bysshops of the weste parte of the worlde didde call togeather Synodes, and make priuate assemblies in their Prouinces.

1621 P. Heylyn Microcosmus 51 These latter being called Hugonotts, so named as they say of a gate in Tours (where they first began) called Hugo's gate, out of which they vsed to goe to their priuate assemblies.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 99 If it [sc. the succession] be in any other particular Man, or private Assembly, it is in a person subject, and may be assumed by the Soveraign at his pleasure.

1797 E. Malone in J. Reynolds Wks. I. p. lv When not engaged..in some publick or private assembly, or at the theatre.

1842 Times 14 Apr. 4/5 He had summoned only a private assembly in a corner of the Reform Club.

1910 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics III. 176 The prohibition of public worship drove the people to private assemblies.

1983 Russ. Rev. 42 143 Dostoevsky committed the indiscretions that resulted at once in his arrest, declaiming Belinsky's radical letter to Gogol at more than one private assembly.

2013 C. Tame tr. P. Cossart From Deliberation to Demonstration i. 66 If a representative of authority wants to enter a private assembly, the organizer can deny him access.