conventual

The normal routine of conventual life, as laid down in the Benedictine Rule, secured this end.

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

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

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

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