单词 | conventual |
释义 | conventual (once / 11714 pages) adj WORD FAMILY conventual: conventually+/convent: convents, conventual USAGE EXAMPLESThe Ohio native is a Conventual Franciscan priest who has served in Texas, California and Ohio. Washington Times(Mar 13, 2015) The illegitimate, the deformed, the feeble-minded and the unwilling represent a not very pleasant side of the conventual system. Power, Eileen, Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275...(2012) Its complete suppression of the conventual system was also, I think, very far from a benefit to women or to the world. Lecky, William Edward Hartpole, History of European Morals From Aug...(2012) adj of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows Syn cloistered, cloistral, monastic, monastical unworldly not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations |
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