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The church of a monastery.
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Resembling or characteristic of an abbey.
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a group or meeting (particularly for purposes of worship or judicial matters); congregation; assembly; prayer meeting
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A small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country.
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A boy serving as an acolyte in certain forms of Christianity.
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Alternative spelling of anchorite [One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.]
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Alternative spelling of anchorite [One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.]
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Alternative spelling of anchorite [One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.]
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One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.
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(architecture) A small chapel, radiating from the apse.
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A walled community of small houses occupied by the Beguines.
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(architecture) The room or building in a monastery holding its communal fire, kept warm and used as a sitting room.
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An enclosed precinct surrounding a cathedral.
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Resembling a cathedral
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(now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
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The person, usually in a monastery, responsible for providing food and drink.
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(by extension) A small circle or gathering of specialists (writers etc).
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A monastery, a monastic community.
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The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.
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A chapel built in a remote part of a parish to meet the needs of those who live far from the parish church.
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(obsolete, 17-18th C.) Obsolete spelling of chapel [(especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.]
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A Salvation Army meeting place.
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Of or pertaining to a cloister.
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Shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister.
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A young or insignificant clerk.
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(obsolete) A bishop's crook or crosier.
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such an arcade in a monastery;
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Alternative form of cloistral [Of, pertaining to, resembling or living in a cloister.]
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One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
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Alternative form of cloistress [(obsolete) A nun.]
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Resembling or characteristic of a cloister.
adj
Characteristic of, or suitable for, a cloister.
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Sheltered from the world; monastic.
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Obsolete form of cloister. [such an arcade in a monastery;]
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A religious order whose members have little or no contact or involvement with the outside world.
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Obsolete spelling of cloister [such an arcade in a monastery;]
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A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
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A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns.
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Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.
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(Wicca, by metonymy) A Wiccan congregation.
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(India, archaic) A church.
adj
(Roman Catholicism) Pertaining to a religious order that historically forswore the wearing of shoes.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a disciple.
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A chapel or meetinghouse.
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To shut up in a cloister.
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Synonym of closed order (religious group).
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(religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
adj
Characteristic of a hermit
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(Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a guru.
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(archaic) A sanctuary; lands held of a religious foundation.
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A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a hermit
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(countable) The secluded place where a hermit dwells; hermitage.
adj
Like, resembling, or characteristic of a hermit.
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The chancel or sanctuary of a Coptic church.
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The main altar in a church, situated on the main axis at the east of the chancel or choir.
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(biblical) A place of worship.
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Alternative letter-case form of Holy Grail [(Arthurian legend) An artifact in Arthurian mythology, being the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper and in which some of his blood was caught during the crucifixion.]
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(archaic) The Eucharist.
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Alternative form of encloister [To shut up in a cloister.]
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(idiomatic) A sheltered, overly-academic existence or perspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness of reality or practical considerations.
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(historical, Roman Catholicism) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior
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(Christianity) In the English Church, a movable desk at which a minister kneels, facing the altar, while he recites the litany.
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A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.
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The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
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The room in a monastery for monks granted such relaxation.
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Resembling or characteristic of a missionary.
adj
Relating to a monastery.
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A book giving an account of monasteries.
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A European pawnbroking establishment, especially one with charitable aims.
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A private chapel or prayer room.
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A partition that closes off part of a building; especially one that separates an altar or chapel from the rest of a church.
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A room set aside for visitors in a monastery or convent, where they can talk to residents.
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(archaic) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.
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A small chapel in a temple containing an image of a god.
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the innermost (or most secret) part of a building; an inner sanctum; a sanctum sanctorum.
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In Christian spirituality, a small sparsely furnished cabin or room where a person goes to fast and pray, but which is less austere than a hermitage.
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A community of the Knights Templar, or the physical buildings or estate of such a community.
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The habitation of a recluse; a hermitage.
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(historical) An annual festival on February 24 in Ancient Rome, commemorating the expulsion of the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, in 510 BC.
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A latrine situated at the rear of a medieval monastery or convent.
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Alternative form of retrochoir [(architecture) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, such as a chapel.]
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A small chapel, as a monument within a church.
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(obsolete) a place where religious matters are debated, particularly with the aim of relieving participants of their scruples of conscience
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(historical) A sacred enclosure, sanctuary or cella in an ancient Greek temple.
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Resembling or characteristic of a shepherd.
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A wooden church with a medieval post and lintel construction.
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(Orthodox Christianity) A structure, in the apse, containing the cathedra and seating for priests assisting a bishop.
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(by extension) Any house of worship, especially a Mormon church.
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One who goes to a temple.
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boundary of the monastic grounds, generally marked by a stone cross
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(UK) A church, usually nonconformist, clad in corrugated iron.
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Alternative form of Dunker [One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers.]
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A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes; a sacristy.
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(dated) A Christian religious service held on New Year's Eve.
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(Judaism, historical) An ancient Jewish custom of moving the hands in succession towards the four points of the compass in presenting certain offerings; opposed to the heave offering, in which the hands were only lifted up and lowered.
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(Freemasonry) A rite of Freemasonry consisting of a series of progressive degrees that can be conferred by various Masonic organizations or bodies.
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