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

Bursary :: Bursary (n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.

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

Cartulary :: Cartulary (n.) A register, or record, as of a monastery or church..

Monastery :: Monastery (n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females..

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..

Friary :: Friary (n.) A monastery; a convent of friars.

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

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

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.

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

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..

Cloister :: Cloister (v. t.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college..

Xenodochium :: Xenodochium (n.) In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.].

Obedience :: Obedience (n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.

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..

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..

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

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..

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