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Carthusian

A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.

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Monastic 76% connected

A monk.

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Monk 76% connected

A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a…

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Annual adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.

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Austere unknown · 78% connection

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

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Barnabite noun · 78% connection

A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.

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Bissextile noun · 78% connection

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5…

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Celestinian noun · 78% connection

A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.

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Charterhouse noun · 78% connection

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

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Chartreuse noun · 78% connection

A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

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Cluniac noun · 78% connection

A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.

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Cynic noun · 78% connection

One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for a…

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Devout verb · 78% connection

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religiou…

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Dominican noun · 78% connection

One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221.…

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Druid noun · 78% connection

A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. L…

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Feuillants n. pl. · 78% connection

A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.

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Franciscan noun · 78% connection

A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. Th…

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Friar noun · 78% connection

A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franc…

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Glassite noun · 78% connection

A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught t…

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Homeopathy noun · 78% connection

The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies whi…

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Jesuit noun · 78% connection

One of a religious order founded by Ignatius Loyola, and approved in 1540, under the title of The Society of Jesus.

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