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Provincial :: Provincial (n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order..

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

Secular :: Secular (n.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules..

Monastic :: Monastic (n.) A monk.

Monasticism :: Monasticism (n.) The monastic life, system, or condition..

Monkery :: Monkery (n.) The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.

Trinitarian :: Trinitarian (n.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans..

Congregation :: Congregation (n.) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.

Secular :: Secular (a.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community; as, a secular priest..

Monachal :: Monachal (a.) Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

Religieux :: Religieux (n. m.) A person bound by monastic vows; a nun; a monk.

Secularize :: Secularize (v. t.) To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk..

Monastically :: Monastically (adv.) In a monastic manner.

Religion :: Religion (n.) A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion..

Oblati :: Oblati (n. pl.) Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.

Abbey :: Abbey (n.) A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings..

Obedience :: Obedience (n.) One of the three monastic vows.

Infirmarian :: Infirmarian (n.) A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution..

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

Regular :: Regular (a.) Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy..

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