Word Finder - convent

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A religious community whose members (especially nuns) live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.

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The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.

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A Christian school.

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A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.

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A coming together; a meeting.

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To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.

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To meet together; to concur.

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To be convenient; to serve.

The convent would do a better job raising him than the Immortals.

Is everyone in the convent safe?

Sanctuaries were managed by a convent of women who cared for the lost and injured.

At Marseilles (after 410) he founded two religious societies - a convent for nuns, and the abbey of St Victor, which during his time is said to have contained 5000 inmates.

A small woman in convent browns entered and curtseyed.

While his patroness lived in a convent of her own in Jerusalem, Rufinus, at her expense, gathered together a number of monks in a monastery on the Mount of Olives, devoting himself at the same time to the study of Greek theology.

There are a theological college for Redemptorists, and a Benedictine convent, dedicated to St Scholastica.

Yet she still clung to old associations, and on her grandmother's death was about to return to her convent, but was dissuaded by her friends, who found her a husband.

She was educated with great strictness in the convent of the Carmelites in the Rue St Jacques at Paris.

As her health failed she hardly ever left the convent of the Carmelites in which she had been educated.

Certain scandals had come to light in a small convent school at Greco near Milan.

In the convent, his modesty was so great that he refused to accept the doctor's degree in theology, which is the highest prized honour in the order.

He then hurried back to Andalusia where he joined the sovereigns, who were now besieging Granada, which he entered with the conquering army in January 1492 and built there a convent of his order.

During his stay at Manresa, he lived for the most part in a cell at the Dominican convent; and here, evidently, he had severe illnesses.

The woman said, tugging her into the convent.

His superiors, however, obliged him to take the priorship of the convent of Santa Cruz in Segovia, where he ruled for twenty-two years.

Originally the abbey was a convent, founded in the 12th century, but converted two centuries later into a collegiate church by Archibald, earl of Douglas.

It is the seat of Missouri Valley College (opened 1889; coeducational), which was established by the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and includes a preparatory department and a conservatory of music. The court-house (1883), a Roman Catholic convent and a high school (1907) are the principal buildings.

The general appearance of the convent is that of a town of isolated houses with streets running between them.

The door opened to reveal Daniela, the headmistress, a severe-looking woman wearing the brown robes of the convent.

By the austere clothing and stern features, Katie assessed she was in some kind of religious convent.

I understand you want to go to the convent.

From the free out-door life at Nohant she passed at thirteen to the convent of the English Augustinians at Paris, where for the first two years she never went outside the walls.

In 1604 d'Entragues and he were arrested and condemned to death; at the same time the marchioness was condemned to perpetual imprisonment in a convent.

The latter was so well designed, so naturally and beautifully coloured, and so strongly expressive of suffering and agony, that it was found necessary to remove it from the place where it had been exhibited in the chapel of a convent.

He was tried and condemned to death for being a heretic, but the sentence was commuted to perpetual imprisonment, while his wife was immured in a convent.

She afterwards resided at Somerset House and at Hammersmith, where she had privately founded a convent.

The municipal government is housed in an ancient tobacco factory converted to public uses, and a fine old Capuchin convent now serves as a public hospital.

She held out gallantly, but was at last forced to surrender on the 22nd of January 150o; Cesare treated her with consideration, and she ended her days in a convent.

At the request of Mir `Alishirr, himself a distinguished statesman and writer, Mirkhond began about 1474, in the quiet convent of Khilasiyah, which his patron had founded in Herat as a house of retreat for literary men of merit, his great work on universal history, Rauzat-ussafa fi sirat-ulanbia walmuluk walkhulafa or Garden of Purity on the Biography of Prophets, Kings and Caliphs.

Among the principal buildings are the U.S. Government Building, the City Hall and the County Court House; and the city's institutions include the Laredo Seminary (1882) for boys and girls, the Mercy Hospital, the National Railroad of Mexico Hospital and an Ursuline Convent.

It belonged to a Franciscan convent, of the buildings of which there are slight ruins.

The lunacy of her father and the depravity of her mother were serious drawbacks to Catherine, and her only education was obtained in a convent at Poissy.

A stone building of the 13th century connects the Schlossberg with the Afraberg, which owes its name to the old convent of St Afra.

The convent was suppressed by Duke Maurice in 1543, and was by him converted into a school (the Fiirsten Schule), one of the most renowned classical schools in Germany, which counts Lessing and Gellert among its former pupils.

The tradition of Carnac is that there was once a convent of the Templars or Red Cross Knights on the spot; but this, it seems, is not supported by history.

References in the Jewish Talmud show that this city still continued to exist at and after the commencement of our era; but according to Arabian writers, at the time when the Arab city of Bagdad was founded by the caliph Mansur, there was nothing on that site except an old convent.

The town itself is a pleasant residence, and contains a 16th century cathedral church, an 18th century bishop's palace, a 14th-16th century castle (formerly the residence of the counts of the Genevois), and the reconstructed convent of the Visitation, wherein now reposes the body of St Francois de Sales (born at the castle of Sales, close by, in 1567; died at Lyons in 1622), who held the see from 1602 to 1622.

It was erected in 1836-1841 on the site of the convent of St Mary Magdalen and escaped the conflagration of 1842.

The fear of being imprisoned in a convent for the rest of her life was the determining cause of her irresistible outburst of energy.

Edward the Confessor gave the manor to the church of Winchester in 1042, and it remained with the prior and convent of St Swithin until the 13th century, when it passed by exchange to Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, though the vassals of the prior and convent remained exempt from dues and tronage in the port.

The first charter was that granted by the prior and convent in 1252, by which Weymouth was made a free borough and port for all merchants, the burgesses holding their burgages by the same customs as those of Portsmouth and Southampton.

When the people shouted " Long live King Amador," he cried out " Long live John IV.," and took refuge in a convent.

When nineteen he entered the Dominican convent and in 1525 took the vows; and, with the leave of his prior, shared his daily allowance of food with his mother.

Seven years after he was elected prior of the convent of Scala Caeli in the mountains of Cordova, which after eight years he succeeded in restoring from its ruinous state, and there he began his work as a zealous reformer.

At the expiration of his tenure of the provincialship, he retired to the Dominican convent at Lisbon, where he lived till his death on the last day of 1588.

A Jesuit convent, the theatre, schools and the palace of the dukes of Osuna, are modern.

Other public buildings are St Winifred's (Catholic) church and a convent, a town hall and a market-hall.

The town is supposed to owe its origin to the foundation of a convent on the spot by Itta or Iduberge, wife of Pippin of Landen.

The church is supposed to occupy the site of Itta's convent.