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con·ven·tu·al
kn ven chu l
adjective
of, relating to, or befitting a convent or monastic life : monastic
capitalized of or relating to the Conventuals
noun
capitalized a member of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual forming a branch of the first order of St. Francis of Assisi under a mitigated rule
a member of a conventual community
Adjective Middle English, from Anglo-French or Medieval Latin; Anglo-French conventuel, from Medieval Latin conventualis, from conventus convent
The first known use of conventual was in the 15th century
1 But degraded conventual forces could drive Putin to other means of exerting force.
2 Or, when adorned with the infula and crosier, in all thy conventual dignity, did his image never wake within thee a longing desire to return into the world?
3 In the sixteenth century Vasari altered the interior and took away the marble screen that divided the conventual from the public part of the church.
4 A guilty nun was also debarred from holding any conventual office; but it must be admitted that this salutary precaution was not always strictly carried out.
5 How the conventual habit, albeit the material had been lightened to accord with local conditions, must have weighed them down.
6 I have already procured large sums of money upon the reversion of her estate, when she either dies or adopts a conventual life.
7 She had by this means long since anticipated that the situation of a lay brother would not satisfy my wishes, but that I would make choice of the conventual life.
8 The Rev. Brad Heckathorne, a Conventual Franciscan friar, performed the ceremony at the chapel at Duke University.
9 Music taught in the conventual schools, 7. —— to ladies by private masters, 175.
10 Glimpses of delicious walled-in gardens and old conventual courtyards nestling behind high walls break the colour of our brown mat with relieving patches of green.
11 Effect of the suppression of the conventual system on women, 369.
12 The part however in which is placed this small apartment, decorated with frescoes of the period, is still applied to conventual purposes.
13 He did not believe that a girl of seventeen, luxuriously brought up and petted like "a bird of the Indies," could really desire to embrace the austerities and abnegations of a conventual life.
14 The fact that the greater portion of the female population was unaffected by the existence of the outlet provided by conventual life for women’s energies is a significant one.
15 Judge me, then, venerable father," interrupted I—"judge me according as the conventual law directs.
16 Compostela had become a populous city, but a city of inns, hospitals, and all variety of conventual and religious establishments.
17 To keep them firm in their allegiance there acted not only the military and conventual discipline to which they were subject, but the dazzling prospect of future greatness.
18 Besides confessing the nuns Busch and his fellow visitors went through the conventual routine with them, showing them how they ought to perform divine service, to behave in the frater and to hold chapters.
19 The Charthe gives exceedingly minute directions as to the conventual housekeeping.
20 Perhaps it is the late hours; you were not used to them in France, of course, and it must be such a change to this life from your unvarying conventual routine at St. Denis.