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Word Meanings - CONVENTUAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. "A conventual garb." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.

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  • REGULARITY
    The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
  • MONKISH
    Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude. -- Monk"ish*ness, n.
  • REGULARIA
    A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
  • APARTMENT HOUSE
    A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
  • APARTNESS
    The quality of standing apart.
  • RETIRER
    One who retires.
  • RETIREMENT
    1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
  • DISSOCIAL
    Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.
  • RETIRED
    1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne. 2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. Retired flank , a flank bent inward
  • MONASTICALLY
    In a monastic manner.
  • RETIRING
    1. Reserved; shy; not forward or obtrusive; as, retiring modesty; retiring manners. 2. Of or pertaining to retirement; causing retirement; suited to, or belonging to, retirement. Retiring board , a board of officers who consider and report upon
  • APARTMENT
    appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope.
  • RETIRE
    1. To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice. To Una back he cast him to retire. Spenser. The
  • MONASTICISM
    The monastic life, system, or condition. Milman.
  • MONASTICON
    A book giving an account of monasteries.
  • MONASTIC
    A monk.
  • RECLUSE
    1. A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells; usually attached to monasteries. 2. The place where a recluse dwells. Foxe.
  • REGULAR
    Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin. (more info) 1. Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal;
  • 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.
  • DISSOCIALIZE
    To render unsocial.
  • IRREGULARITY
    The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
  • SEQUESTER
    To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand
  • BONAPARTISM
    The policy of Bonaparte or of the Bonapartes.

 

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