Ely thus became a cathedral -- of the kind that was called conventual cathedrals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference

This official public Mass is called the conventual Mass; if possible it should be a high Mass, but, even if it be not, it always has some of the features of high Mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Only fragments of the conventual buildings remain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference

Ought conventual and monastic institutions to be inspected?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition] Reference

Catholics; I learn that she is even thinking of conventual life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference

It contains also twenty churches, including those that are conventual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

And yet the conventual prejudice which banishes its name subsists still.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference

Those that were once conventual churches had no deans or canons till Henry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference

Of course, the greater portion of the conventual libraries was theological.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference

She has no vocation for the conventual life and -- I was beginning to become anxious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

Spanish conventual work -- parchment patterns with lace in progress -- have been found.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference

Much as I dislike the conventual creed, I should be sorry to see the costume disappear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference

Here, then, the conventual spirit has been in injurious operation; -- no less so on other points.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference

The conventual spirit has survived conventual institutions, -- in the department of female education especially.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference

It is distinguished for the number of its churches and conventual establishments, although the latter have been closed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

Chudleigh in Devon, the only English community that can boast an unbroken conventual existence since pre-Reformation times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

We can picture to ourselves Diemudis in her conventual dress, seated in the scriptorium, with her materials for chirography.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference

Congregation of twenty-nine other abbeys, and ninety-one conventual priories; but a bishopric being erected in the town of Cava, by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

The conventual system was to him a survival of medievalism, a relic of the dark ages; the last refuge of the shirkers of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

It is with this new house, henceforth called San Domenico e Sisto, that one of my earliest recollections of conventual life is connected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference

Forester, and Henry V. acknowledged the claim of the Priory to be conventual and perpetual, and as such, not to come into the King's hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

The number of the girls receiving education at the communal and conventual schools in Corsica is very disproportionate to that of the boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

We have given enough, of his history to prove that conventual establishments are at this moment what they ever have been -- dangerous alike to liberty and life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

We can easily understand, then, why such donations were regarded as most precious presents, and chronicled in the conventual records as events of high importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

And Monsignor Catinari, whose business it was to examine all candidates for the conventual life, had held a long conversation with her and gone away perfectly satisfied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

He had been for seventeen years resident in different cloisters of his order, as sick-nurse, alms gatherer, student, and physician, and knew the conventual life out and out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference