Vocabulary : Conventicler to Conventionalization
Conventicler : One who supports or frequents conventicles.Conventicling : Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.
Convention : The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition. ;; General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality. ;; A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical. ;; An extraordinary assembly of the parkiament or estates of the realm, held without the king's writ, -- as the assembly which restored Charles II. to the throne, and that which declared the throne to be abdicated by James II. ;; An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments.
Conventional : Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. ;; Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. ;; Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules. ;; Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.
Conventionalily : In a conventional manner.
