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Monasteries :: Monasteries (pl. ) of Monaster.

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another..

Locutory :: Locutory (n.) A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse..

Monastical :: Monastical (a.) Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules..

Recluse :: Recluse (a.) A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries..

Refectory :: Refectory (n.) A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents..

Monasticon :: Monasticon (n.) A book giving an account of monasteries.

Exarch :: Exarch (n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc..

Archimandrite :: Archimandrite (n.) A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church..

Canon :: Canon (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries..

Trappist :: Trappist (n.) A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky..

Black Book :: Black book () A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution..

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