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: monastic_order
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> 1 sense of the expression
monastic order
:
NOUN
group
monastic order
,
order
a
group
of
person
living under a
religious
rule
English
>
monastic order
: 1 sense
> noun 1, group
Meaning
A
group
of
person
living under a
religious
rule.
Synonym
order
Narrower
Augustinian order
Any of several
monastic orders
observing
a rule
derived
from the
writings
of
St. Augustine
Benedictine order
,
order of Saint Benedict
A
Roman Catholic
monastic order
founded
in the
6th
century
Carmelite order
,
Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
A
Roman Catholic
mendicant
order
founded
in the
12th
century
Carthusian order
An
austere
contemplative
Roman Catholic
order
founded
by
St. Bruno
in 1084
Dominican order
A
Roman Catholic
order of
mendicant
preachers
founded
in the
13th
century
Franciscan order
A
Roman Catholic
order
founded
by
Saint Francis of Assisi
in the
13th
century
Society of Jesus
,
Jesuit order
A
Roman Catholic
order
founded
by
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
in 1534 to
defend
Catholicism
against the
Reformation
and to do
missionary work
among the
heathen
Broader
sect
,
religious sect
,
religious order
A
subdivision
of a
larger
/
larger
/
larger
/
larger
religious
group
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