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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..

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..

Parlor :: Parlor (n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without..

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..

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

Obedience :: Obedience (n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.

Monasterial :: Monasterial (a.) Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life..

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

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

Paradise :: Paradise (n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc..

Cell :: Cell (n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

Hospice :: Hospice (n.) A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard..

Superioress :: Superior (n.) The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like..

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

Bursar :: Bursar (n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery..

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

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

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..

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

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

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