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A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Wicca, lifestyle, religion
Examples
- 1986, Raymond Buckland, Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, link It used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next.
- 1993, Janet Thompson, Of Witches: Celebrating the Goddess As a Solitary Pagan, page 29, If that is the case, then the home of the high Priestess is likely to be referred to as the covenstead.
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A Wiccan congregation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: metonymically
Topics: Wicca, lifestyle, religion
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From coven + stead; first attested in 1969.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
kehä
— permanent circle or temple
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Spanish:
santuario de brujas
— permanent circle or temple
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Spanish:
templo de aquelarre
— permanent circle or temple
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Spanish:
santuario
— permanent circle or temple
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Spanish:
escondite
— permanent circle or temple
