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Webster 1913 Edition


Conventual

Con-ven′tu-al

(?; 135)
,
Adj.
[LL.
conventualis
: cf. F.
conventuel
.]
Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.
“A conventual garb.”
Macaulay.
Conventual church
,
a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery.
Wordsworth.

Con-ven′tu-al

,
Noun.
One who lives in a convent; a monk or nun; a recluse.
Addison.

Webster 1828 Edition


Conventual

CONVENTUAL

,
Adj.
Belonging to a convent; monastic; as conventual priors.

CONVENTUAL

,
Noun.
One that lives in a convent; a monk or nun.