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conventual

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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.
[Middle English, from Medieval Latin conventulis, from conventus, convent; see convent.]
conventual [kənˈvɛntjʊəl]
adj
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent
n
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a member of a convent
conventually  adv
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Adj.1.conventualconventual - 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


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A new Theresa will hardly have the opportunity of reforming a conventual life, any more than a new Antigone will spend her heroic piety in daring all for the sake of a brother's burial: the medium in which their ardent deeds took shape is forever gone.
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The effect of seclusion was aided by the great height of the garden walls, which were, indeed, conventual, and, as John had tested in former days, defied the climbing schoolboy.
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The meal was passed in commonplace talk of what he had been doing during the morning at the Abbey Mill, of the methods of bolting and the old-fashioned machinery, which he feared would not enlighten him greatly on modern improved methods, some of it seeming to have been in use ever since the days it ground for the monks in the adjoining conventual buildings--now a heap of ruins.
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