Saturday, August 18, 2007
Conventicle
A conventicle is actually a secret religious meeting or, alternatively, a building for holding secret religious meetings. Mmmmm. Very Interesting. I can't think of a time when I'll need to know that, but I'm intrigued nevertheless. Your invented meanings were equally intriguing and Magdalene's was the favourite amongst poll voters. Well done, Magdalene.
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A conventicle is a place where trainee nuns go to have their last confession before graduating as fully-fledged nuns.
I do love Maalie's definition. I wish I had thought of that ... but he is wrong.
Conventicle is a type of corset worn by gentlemen with a hernia problem. They are very rarely used these days as more and more men opt for surgical remedies for this embarrasing little problem.
Conventicle was the name given to the Roman's air conditioning system. It involved slaves with bellows, and heat exchangers that fed into their hot water systems. The air entered rooms through underfloor vents. It was not advisable to walk over these in a toga.
Terquinnius Junior, Praetor of Corinium, died from a chill apparenly caused by his insistence on running the conventicle all year round, even during cold British summers.
A conventicle is an angry letter sent to a member of Congress. The name came about because in such a letter the person is said to be "venting" their feelings.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
A conventicle is a kind of small portable toilet. Particularly ones taken on camping trips.
At the Glastonbury festival this year, the public toilets were so unbearable I was forced to convert a lidded plastic mayonnaise container into a conventicle for use at night, thus avoiding scary trips to the larger, highly noxious convusticals.
A conventicle is a "portable convent", used by the nuns of the Order of Saint Christopher in their missionary travels. The nuns in this peculiar order used to be cloistered until they decided to make it their lives' work to volunteer in poor communities.
The conventicle, a prefabricated structure that can be mounted on an 18-wheeler truck, allows the nuns to roam the country and reach those in need, while keeping them in living quarters that maintain the spirit of their former convent.
A conventicle is an underwater steam vent found in volcanic hot springs. Really, it is...
A conventicle is a conventional song or piece of music.
conventicle:
A convention of cuticle cutters. It's not as nice as it sounds, they usually are addicted to cutting their cuticles on their fingers so much they often move to their toes...
Yeah, it's gross, right?
A conventicle is an early version of a scrod (so aptly defined by Sandy Shoes yesterday as an instrument for gaining relief from an itch). It was invented by nuns for dealing with that irritating tickle on the scalp that sometimes occurred when wearing a wimple.
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