conventicle

1 They held their conventicles undisturbed, they dared openly to preach their abhorred faith, and their missionary zeal was rewarded with abundant conversions.

2 Coligny was right; my executioners are in the conventicles, they are at the Louvre.

3 The house, Helen says, is a perfect conventicle.

4 I have my eyes upon you; and the first conventicle which you hold at the old town of Douglas shall seal your fate.

5 She had occasionally had the privilege of hearing field preaching, although field conventicles were not common in the country.

6 Under its dominion the lower orders were deprived of their innocent and invigorating sports, and forced to supply their place by noxious stimulants, drawn first from the conventicle and afterwards from the alehouse.

7 Pietism, chiliasm, separatism, the holding of conventicles, etc., assumed formidable dimensions; solid science, philosophical culture, and then also philosophical and destructive critical tendencies issuing from Tübingen affected the clergy of this state.

8 Early in the fifth century we find Chrysostom teaching that heresy must be suppressed, heretics silenced and prevented from ensnaring others, and their conventicles broken up, but that the death-penalty is unlawful.

9 For this has been well proved, that whenever any one for just grievance assembles men to avenge his injury, he has not incurred the crime and penalty of conventicle.

10 In several states conventicles were forbidden; in others, e.g.

11 Also, though there is no church, there are two chapels; one of retiring position, the other conventicle of aggressive and red, red brick.

12 In the sixth year of his marriage Baxter was brought before the magistrates for holding a conventicle, and was sentenced to be confined in Clerkenwell Gaol.

13 Another remarkable example of the constancy of Penn is recorded, in the history of his trial, before the Lord Mayor, for a breach of the conventicle act, in 1670.

14 They met in small groups which were called conventicles.

15 Either not a single stole, or not a single conventicle!

16 Factionism is the tendency to separate into innumerable small parties; clubbism is the desire of conspiracy in secret companies and conventicles; Putschism, finally, is the fanatical tendency towards street struggle, faith in the barricade.

17 All who hurry to conventicles on Sunday with gilt-edged prayer-books, and begin on Monday morning to slander, ill-treat, or cheat their neighbours.

18 Or these claims would hold good if he had assembled a smaller 69 number of men, whereby the crime of conventicle would not have been established.

19 It is evident that the wits were not all banished from the conventicles.

20 "You were somewhat disappointed, I fancy, Miss Torrington," said she, "to discover that though you had contrived to banish the conventicle from the house, it had raised its voice in the grounds."

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