conventual

comparative more conventual · superlative most conventual

1. Pertaining to a convent or convent life; cloistered, monastic.

   The Breton Club resumed its meetings in the refectory of an empty conventual building in the rue Saint-Jacques.

   1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 267

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   During this time, sister Ursula, to give her for the last time her conventual name, exchanged her stole, or loose upper garment, for the more succinct cloak and hood of a horseman.

   1831 June–November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter V, in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume IV (Castle Dangerous), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, pages 159–160

   The noise of her steps, light as they were, attracted the stranger's notice, who, turning round and letting her mantle fall as she did so, showed a tall and stately figure, dressed in what appeared to be some conventual costume.

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Disclosure”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 304

   The Sunday Times has convinced me I ought to immediately start out on a new regime of positively conventual austerity in order to reduce the burden on a strained NHS by not forcing them to have to cope with my ling cancer or coronary.

   1976, Angela Carter, “Health on the Brain”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 82

   Synonyms: conventical

plural conventuals

1. A member of a convent.

plural Conventuals

1. A member of one of the two divisions of the Franciscans, following a mitigated rule, the other being the Observants.