What is "conventual"

Usage examples of "conventual".

Hat in hand, Garnache took a step forward in that bare, scantily furnished little room, permeated by the faint, waxlike odour that is peculiar to the abode of conventuals.

Barre and same Carmelite friars who were good enough to assist him against their common enemies, the devils had been temporarily driven out, but on the previous Sunday night, the 10th of October, the mother superior, Jeanne de Belfield, whose conventual name was Jeanne des Anges, and a lay sister called Jeanne Dumagnoux, had again been entered into by the same spirits.

The halls and principal chambers of the ancient religious structure were hung with black, and garnished with escutcheons, and the fine old conventual church, refitted for the occasion, was likewise clothed with mourning, the high altar being entirely covered with black velvet, and adorned with all the jewels and gold and silver plate of which the shrines of the monastery had been previously plundered.

Afterward, the conventual Mass was a Mass for Pilgrims and Travelers.

Moreover, Pauline had also told her that she would, sooner or later, be strapped to the breast bench in the so-called torture closet or sanctum to have her mammaries flogged and wrenched - something the young conventual admitted she had never experienced, hers being of modest size.