Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Conventicle

means a “little convent,” and was originally applied to a cabal of monks against the election of a proposed abbot. It now means a religious meeting of dissenters. (Latin, conventus, an assembly, with a diminutive.) (See Chapel)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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