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"etymology_text": "From Late Middle English conventicle, conventicule (“a gathering, meeting (especially a secret or unlawful one); (derogatory) a church”), from Latin conventiculum (“assembly; meeting (or the place involved); association”), from conventus (“assembled, convened”) + -culum (suffix forming noun diminutives), perfect passive participle of conveniō (“to assemble, convene, meet together”), from con- (“together, with”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“along, at, next to, with”)) + veniō (“to approach, come”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to step”) + *-yéti (suffix forming intransitive, imperfective verbs)).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "conventicles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "conventicling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "conventicled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "conventicled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "conventicle (third-person singular simple present conventicles, present participle conventicling, simple past and past participle conventicled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"con‧ven‧ti‧cle"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To hold a secret, unauthorized or illegal religious meeting."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/kənˈvɛntɪk(ə)l/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/kənˈvɛn(t)ək(ə)l/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"conventicle"
],
"word": "conventicle"
}
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