conventual
See also: Conventual
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin conventuālis, from Latin conventus (“convent”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kənˈvɛntjuːəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈvɛnt͡ʃuəl/
Adjective
conventual (comparative more conventual, superlative most conventual)
- Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 304:
- The noise of her steps, light as they were, attracted the stranger's notice, who, turning round and letting her mantle fall as she did so, showed a tall and stately figure, dressed in what appeared to be some conventual costume.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘Health on the Brain’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 82:
- The Sunday Times has convinced me I ought to immediately start out on a new regime of positively conventual austerity in order to reduce the burden on a strained NHS by not forcing them to have to cope with my ling cancer or coronary.
- 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 267:
- The Breton Club resumed its meetings in the refectory of an empty conventual building in the rue Saint-Jacques.
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Synonyms
- conventical
Derived terms
- conventualism
- Conventual Franciscans (religious order)
Noun
conventual (plural conventuals)
- A member of a convent.
Spanish
Adjective
conventual (plural conventuales)
- conventual (pertaining to a convent)
- 2015 September 21, “Quito reitera su riqueza histórica”, in El País:
- La semana pasada, el arquitecto de profesión desnudó los edificios conventuales de las órdenes religiosas que recalaron en la urbe y subrayó los “crímenes contra el patrimonio” cometidos por los presidentes de la época republicana, que intervinieron estos edificios.
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Further reading
- “conventual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014