See also:

• CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

CONVENT (See also:

• LAT

Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)  , a See also:

• TERM

term applied to an association of persons secluded from the See also:

• WORLD

world and devoted to a religious See also:

• LIFE

life, and hence to the See also:

• BUILDING

building in which they live, a monastery or (more particularly) nunnery . The diminution conventicle " (conventiculum), generally used in a contemptuous sense as implying sectarianism, secrecy or illegality, is applied to the meetings or See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting-places of See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion? or other dissenting bodies .