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conciliabule|kənˈsɪlɪəbjuːl|
[mod. ad. L. conciliābulum (cf. vestibule, etc.), representing the original L. more closely than the earlier conciliable: see prec. Also in mod.F.]
A small private or secret assembly; a conventicle.
1817H. Hunt in Cobbett's Wks. XXXII. 192, I belong to..no Clubs, no Conciliabules, no secret Associations, of all which I disapprove. 1840J. W. Bowden Life Gregory VII, I. 87 This council..was a pretended one—in ecclesiastical language a conciliabule. 1885M. Pattison Mem. vi. 185 Haunting conciliabules, and reading fiery articles in the English Churchman. |