conventiclern.
/kənˈvɛntɪklə/ An attendant or frequenter of conventicles; opprobriously, a separatist, schismatic.
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conventicler1590
conventiculist1637
church renter1639
conventicleer1647
sectarian1654
schismatist1754
1590 H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Coll. Sclaunderous Articles A ij b Publishing them..Anabaptists..Donatists, Conuenticlers.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 181 Who us'd to shave the Grandees of their Sticklers, And crop the Worthies of their Conventiclers.
1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 96 He always went to Church, was no Conventicler.
1685 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 440 Those late desperate fild Conventiclers, who had don so unheard of assasinations.
1774 T. Pennant Tours Scotl. (1790) 117 Here I found my good old mother Church become a mere conventicler.
1862 M. Napier Mem. Life Visct. Dundee II. 212 A glorification of these very Conventiclers.
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