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Home Dictionary Name: conventualsConventual Church
Conventual Church, one which consists of regular clerks professing some order of religion; or of dean and chapter; or other societies of spiritual men....
Conventuals
Conventuals, religious men united in a convent or religious house, Cowel....
Canoness
A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter...
Conventual
Of or pertaining to a convent monastic...
Observantine
One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder especially as to poverty called also Observants...
Bursaria
Bursaria, the exchequer of collegiate or conventual bodies; or the place of receiving, paying, and accounting by the bursars. Also stipendiary scholars, who live upon the burse, fund, or joint-stock of the college....
Cathedral
Cathedral [fr. Kaedpa, Gk., a seat], the church of the bishop and head of the diocese, in which is his seat of dignity. The Cathedral Acts and Measures are 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113, 4 & 5 Vict. c. 39, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 77, 16 & 17 Vict. c. 35, 27 & 28 Vict. c. 70, 36 & 37 Vict. c. 39, 21 & 22 Geo. 5, No. 7, and 24 & 25 Geo. 5, No. 3; and as to Wales, see 6 & 7 Vict. c. 77, and Welsh Church Act, 1914.Our cathedrals and collegiate churches have been divided into four classes:--1st, consisting of 13, being the cathedrals of the old foundation, or Ecclesi' Cathedrales Canonicorum Secularium; 2nd, consisting of eight conventual cathedrals, constituted with deans and chapters by Hen. VIII; 3rd, containing the five cathedrals founded, together with new bishoprics, by Hen. VIII; 4th, the new cathedrals constituted since that time. See Bishopric....
Parson mortal
Parson mortal [fr. persona mortalis, Lat.], a rector instituted and inducted for his own life. But any collegiate or conventual body, to whom a church was for ever appropriated, was termed persona immortalis, Jac. Law Dict....
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