conventual (redirected from Conventuals)

con·ven·tu·al  (kn-vnch-l)

adj.

Of or relating to a convent.

n.

1. A member of a convent.

2. Conventual A member of a branch of the Franciscan order that permits the accumulation and possession of common property.

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[Middle English, from Medieval Latin conventulis, from conventus, convent; see convent.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

conventual - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical unworldly - not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney