conventual

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.

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.