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Dom :: Dom (n.) A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan..

Monastic :: Monastic (a.) Alt. of Monastica.

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

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

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

Tertiary :: Tertiary (n.) A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third..

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

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

Cloister :: Cloister (v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.

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

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

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..

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..

Monachism :: Monachism (n.) The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.

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

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

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

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

Secularization :: Secularization (n.) The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property..

Monastical :: Monastical (a.) Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse.

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