a. rare. Also erron. -ticle. [f. L. convent-us + -IC + -AL.]
1. Of or pertaining to a convent, conventual. ‘Conventical prior: the same as an abbot’ (Ogilvie).
1765. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, VII. xxi. The gardener … had mortgaged a month of his conventical wages in a borachio or leathern cask of wine.
1784. Unfort. Sensibility, II. 107. If hereafter I should resolve upon a conventicle life.
2. Of or pertaining to a conventicle.
1872. J. H. Newman, Disc. & Arguments, 257. Sir Robert [Peel] breaks out into almost conventical eloquence.
Hence Conventically adv.
1840. New Monthly Mag., LX. 321. ‘I was reading my blessed bible’ … said Tim, looking conventically.
