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Abbess
noun · 78% connection
A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Aeolian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to Aeolus, the mythic god of the winds; pertaining to, or produced by, the wind; aerial.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Agonistical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Anglican
adjective · 78% connection
English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of En…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Benetted
imp. & p. p. · 78% connection
of Benet
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Bernardine
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Bethlemite
noun · 78% connection
One of an extinct English order of monks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Brother
noun · 78% connection
One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Brotherhood
noun · 78% connection
An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Bulbar
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralys…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Capuchin
noun · 78% connection
A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Chapter
noun · 78% connection
An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a dio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Cistercian
noun · 78% connection
A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For tw…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Classical
noun · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their bes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Community
noun · 78% connection
A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Convent
verb · 78% connection
An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Curule
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to a kind of chair appropriated to Roman magistrates and dignitaries; pertaining to, having, or conferring, the right…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
Cystic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, monks, benedict, benet.
