conventual

American  

[kuhn-ven-choo-uhl] / kənˈvɛn tʃu əl /

adjective

1. of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent.

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noun

1. Friar Minor Conventual.

2. a member of a convent or monastery.

conventual British  

/ kənˈvɛntjʊəl /

adjective

1. of, belonging to, or characteristic of a convent

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noun

1. a member of a convent

Other Word Forms

• conventually adjective

Etymology

Origin of conventual

1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin conventuālis, equivalent to Latin conventu-, stem of conventus convent + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

Such tales so stirred up Massachusetts that a nunnery inspection committee was appointed to nose out conventual enormities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Greying Anglo-Saxon Scholar Ayres, who began teaching at Columbia in 1908, must combine the talents of a hotelkeeper, a national planner, a circus ringmaster and a conventual supervisor of morals.

From Time Magazine Archive

She greatly admired Frank de Lacey, who had built himself a hut in the woods and went there to meditate, but she was not ready for so conventual a life.

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Out of that beginning grew orders of deaconesses for service and of conventual nuns for contemplation.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this latter case the south side was generally occupied by the cloisters and other conventual buildings, and the people’s door was therefore placed upon the north side.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various