[f. CONVENTICLE v. + -ING1.] The forming of, meeting in, or frequenting conventicles. Also attrib.
1626. R. Bernard, Isle of Man, 22. Readie to send the Hue and Crie … against a priuy Schismaticall conuenticling, and vnlawfull meeting.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, XVI. lxxx. (R.). The fond schismatick and heretick fry Flatter their conventicling cells in vain.
1717. De Foe, Mem. Ch. Scot., III. 64. Beside his Sentence for Conventicling, as they called it.
