conventual

[kuhn-ven-choo-uhl]

adjective

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

noun

1. Friar Minor Conventual.

2. a member of a convent or monastery.

conventual

/ kənˈvɛntjʊəl /

adjective

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

noun

1. a member of a convent

Other Word Forms

• conventually adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of conventual¹

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

Example Sentences

Besides confessing the nuns Busch and his fellow visitors went through the conventual routine with them, showing them how they ought to perform divine service, to behave in the frater and to hold chapters.

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Effect of the suppression of the conventual system on women, 369.

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This gratified the jealousy of the conventual branch of the Franciscans and many of the secular clergy, who spread the scandal far and wide.

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It was not for them to practise the strenuous idleness of conventual life, in a ceaseless round of barren liturgies.

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Only a few years passed before she had to choose between a conventual life and a distasteful marriage.

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