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Cloister :: Cloister (v. t.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college..

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

Scriptorium :: Scriptorium (n.) In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing..

Archimandrite :: Archimandrite (n.) A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church..

Convert :: Convert (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir..

Abbey :: Abbey (n.) A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings..

Minster :: Minster (n.) A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church..

Grange :: Grange (n.) A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited..

Curtal Friar :: Curtal friar () A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.

Monk :: Monk (n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty..

Cell :: Cell (n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit..

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

Slype :: Slype (n.) A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery..

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..

Friary :: Friary (n.) A monastery; a convent of friars.

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

Charterhouse :: Charterhouse (n.) A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

Abbey :: Abbey (n.) The church of a monastery.

Covent :: Covent (n.) A convent or monastery.

Bursary :: Bursary (n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.

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