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SISTERHOOD |
Religious order |
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SECT |
Religious order |
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NUN |
Member of religious order |
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CARTHUSIAN |
Member of an austere religious order |
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NUNS |
Female member of a religious order |
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RELIGIOUS |
Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows. |
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SUFI |
One of a certain order of religious men in Persia. |
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BARNABITE |
A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas. |
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CANON |
In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious
order. |
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PROFESSION |
The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a
religious order. |
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CONGREGATION |
A company of religious persons forming a subdivision
of a monastic order. |
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OBEDIENCE |
The written precept of a superior in a religious order
or congregation to a subject. |
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MISERICORDIA |
An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member
of a religious order. |
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SERVITE |
One of the order of the Religious Servants of the Holy
Virgin, founded in Florence in 1223. |
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RELIGION |
A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode
of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. |
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MOLLAH |
One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish
title of respect for a religious and learned man. |
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JESUIT |
One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and
approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus. |
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CENOBITE |
One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a
community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in
solitude. |
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PRECEPTORY |
A religious house of the Knights Templars, subordinate
to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See
Commandery, n., 2. |
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REGULAR |
A member of any religious order or community who has taken
the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly
recognized by the church. |
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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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PREMONSTRATENSIAN |
One of a religious order of regular canons
founded by St. Norbert at Premontre, in France, in 1119. The members of
the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants. |
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PIARIST |
One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the
Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education,
founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century. |
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PROVINCIAL |
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. |
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PROTECTOR |
...an
Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome;
also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious
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