Word Meanings - CONVENTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. "Conventical wages." Sterne. Conventical prior. See Prior.

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• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• WAGES
  A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See Wage, n., 2. The wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. Wages fund , the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is
• CONVENTICLING
  Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• PRIORSHIP
  The state or office of prior; priorate.
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• CONVENTIONIST
  One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.
• CONVENT
  1. A coming together; a meeting. A usual ceremony at their convents or meetings. B. Jonson. 2. An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns. One of our convent, and his confessor. Shak. 3. A house
• PRIORITY
  1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
• CONVENTIONALITY
  The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.
• PRIORATE
  The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
• PRIORESS
  A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CONVENTICAL
  Of or from, or pertaining to, a convent. "Conventical wages." Sterne. Conventical prior. See Prior.
• CONVENTIONALIST
  1. One who adheres to a convention or treaty. 2. One who is governed by conventionalism.
• CONVENTIONALIZATION
  The act of making conventional. The state of being conventional.
• STERNER
  A director. Dr. R. Clerke.
• STERNED
  Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
• CONVENTICLE
  1. A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly. They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever. Ayliffe. 2. An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution,
• CONVENTUAL
  Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. "A conventual garb." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.
• SUBPRIOR
  The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
• PINK-STERNED
  Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
• APRIORISM
  An a priori principle.