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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..

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

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

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

Monastic :: Monastic (n.) 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..

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

Conventual :: Conventual (a.) Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.

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..

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..

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

Derainment :: Derainment (n.) The renunciation of religious or monastic vows.

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

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

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

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

Religious :: Religious (n.) A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun..

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..

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

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