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ABBEYS |
Monasteries |
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MONASTICON |
A book giving an account of monasteries. |
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CANON |
In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious
order. |
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REFECTORY |
A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in
monasteries or convents. |
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LOCUTORY |
A room for conversation; especially, a room in
monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse. |
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COLLATION |
A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other
devout work read daily in monasteries. |
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MONASTICAL |
Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants,
rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules. |
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ARCHIMANDRITE |
A superintendent of several monasteries,
corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman
Catholic church. |
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ADOPTION |
Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the
adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society
into another. |
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BLACK BOOK |
A book containing details of the enormities practiced in
the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of
their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution. |
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RECLUSE |
...with the
world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded
devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries... |
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EXARCH |
...of the
Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several
monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch ,... |
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TRAPPIST |
...ently into the United States in 1848, and
have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky. ... |