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Cell :: Cell (n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

Parlor :: Parlor (n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without..

Cell :: Cell (n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit..

Archimandrite :: Archimandrite (n.) A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church..

Grange :: Grange (n.) A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited..

Paradise :: Paradise (n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc..

Convert :: Convert (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir..

Minster :: Minster (n.) A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church..

Oblati :: Oblati (n. pl.) A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery..

Convent :: Convent (v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.

Monk :: Monk (n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty..

Slype :: Slype (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery..

Hospice :: Hospice (n.) A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard..

Calefactory :: Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room..

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

Chartreuse :: Chartreuse (n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France..

Monasterial :: Monasterial (a.) Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life..

Charterhouse :: Charterhouse (n.) A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

Scriptorium :: Scriptorium (n.) In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing..

Abbey :: Abbey (n.) The church of a monastery.

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