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Form :: Form (n.) Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form..

Meeting :: Meeting (n.) A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting..

Conventicle :: Conventicle (n.) A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly..

Rector :: Rector (n.) The superior officer or chief of a convent or religious house; and among the Jesuits the superior of a house that is a seminary or college.

Kyriological :: Kyriological (a.) Serving to denote objects by conventional signs or alphabetical characters; as, the original Greek alphabet of sixteen letters was called kyriologic, because it represented the pure elementary sounds. See Curiologic..

Form :: Form (n.) Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer..

Death's-head :: Death's-head (n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

Chapter :: Chapter (n.) An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean..

Fleur-de-lis :: Fleur-de-lis (n.) A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France..

Lamasery :: Lamasery (n.) A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc..

Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.

Formality :: Formality (n.) Compliance with formal or conventional rules; ceremony; conventionality.

Symbol :: Symbol (n.) A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience..

Conventionalizing :: Conventionalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Conventionaliz.

Up-train :: Up-train () A train going in the direction conventionally called up.

Formality :: Formality (n.) An established order; conventional rule of procedure; usual method; habitual mode.

Friary :: Friary (n.) Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent.

Conventionalism :: Conventionalism (n.) That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage..

Diet :: Diet (n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521..

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) General agreement or concurrence; arbitrary custom; usage; conventionality.

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