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Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.

Lamasery :: Lamasery (n.) A monastery or convent of lamas, in Thibet, Mongolia, etc..

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

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..

Chartreuse :: Chartreuse (n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France..

Monastic :: Monastic (n.) A monk.

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

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

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

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

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

Convent :: Convent (v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.

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..

Recluse :: Recluse (a.) A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse 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..

Adoption :: Adoption (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another..

Exarch :: Exarch (n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc..

Calefactory :: Calefactory (n.) An apartment in a monastery, warmed and used as a sitting room..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

Oblati :: Oblati (n. pl.) A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery..

Cartulary :: Cartulary (n.) A register, or record, as of a monastery or church..

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