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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Monkish :: Monkish (a.) Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude..

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

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

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

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