en:dictionary:conventions

III. The several Aggregates of men under Political Government, are usually styled either by that more general:* or special name.

  • CONVENTION, Assembly, Meeting, Congregation, Convocation, Company, Rendezvouz, Concourse, Confluence, Quire, Chapter, Committee, Club, Hall, convene, Conventicle, Sessions, Assize, flock or gather together.
  • SOCIETY, Gyld, Gang, Tribe, Clan, Fraternity, Club, Knot, Crew, Fellow∣ship, Company·

These are either such as have the same

  • General inducements; in respect of
  • Language and supreme Government; whether ‖ primitively: or de∣rivatively.
  • NATION-al, epidemical, naturalize, People, Country, vernacu∣lar, Patriot.
  • COLONY, Plantation.
  • Place of Habitation; considered according to the
  • General name; denoting such as inhabit ‖ more dispersedly in the open fields: or more close together, usually within fenced places.
  • COUNTRY, rural, rustic, Peasant, Boor, Hinde, Kern, Swain, Clown, Tike.
  • TOWN, Burrough.
  • Special kinds; signifying all that part of a Nation under the same
  • Subordinate Government; ‖ dwelling more at large: or such as dwell close together, with peculiar Liberties and Priviledges in common amongst them.
  • PROVINCE, Circuit.
  • CITY, Suburbs, Metropolis, See, Borough, municipal.
  • Lowest Government; whether ‖ with: or without Iurisdiction.
  • SHIRE, County, Tribe, District, Riding.
  • PARISH, parochial, Parson, Vicar, Thorpe, Village.
  • Special inducements; for ‖
  • Attendance on Governours: or advice in the Government.
  • COURT-ier, aulical.
  • COUNCIL, Senate, Parliament, Diet, Conclave, Consistory, San∣hedrim, Synod, Committee.
  • Education in Learning; either ‖ of the Adult, with a power to license them for the Liberal professions: or onely of Children or young be∣ginners.
  • UNIVERSITY, Academy, School.
  • SCHOOL.
  • Regulating the affairs of some ‖ Trade: or Profession; especially if they cohabit for those ends in a kind of Political family.
  • CORPORATION, Gyld, Brotherhood, Fraternity, Company, So∣ciety, community, municipal, incorporate.
  • COLLEGE-iate, Fellow.
  • Driving on of some design; ‖ in general: or with particular reference to the opposing of what is legally established.
  • LEAGUE, Confederacy, Combination, Alliance, Complice, Parti∣san, Party, side with, joyn, hold together, Pack, compact.
  • FACTION, Sect, Iuncto, Gang, conspire, side with, combine, Par∣ty-zan, Oligarchy.
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