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Carthusian

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to the Carthusian order
NOUN
  1. a member of the Carthusian order

How To Use Carthusian In A Sentence

  • Tomorrow, I'm "preaching with my hands", or at least conversing with them, at the RevGalBlogPals Monday book discussion: on the DVD Into Great Silence (filmed inside a Carthusian charterhouse) and the book An Infinity of Little Hours (a chronicle of five novices who try the Carthusian life in the 1960s). Preaching with your hands
  • Tell him how our father-prior of the Carthusian is going on, in order that I may be able to write to him about our affairs. The Letters of St. Teresa
  • Each of these small paintings portrays a Calvary scene with a kneeling Carthusian, recognizable by his white full-length scapular, fitted with a cowl.
  • The island takes its name from the Carthusians who followed: Certosa is Italian for "charterhouse," a monastery built by the Carthusian order. Sailors' Venetian Retreat
  • The Benedictines (who, like the Carthusians, are now popularly associated with a high-quality liqueur based on distilled wine) thus owned extensive vineyards.
  • Generally speaking, this was the only time the brethren met, for what most marked the Carthusians apart was that they lived not communally but in isolation, each in his own cell.
  • Alas! on one occasion Knighton was skilful enough to smash a chemist's blue bottle with an apple, ” and on another I am aware that an oil lamp in Carthusian Street succumbed to my only too-true cockshy: My Life as an Author
  • Three Old Carthusians have won the Victoria Cross.
  • In September, the Nelson Chan Property Trust bought Carthusian Court, a 31,031-square-foot development, for £11.65 million from the Chamber of Shipping. Rail Work Puts London on Track for Property Gains
  • Someone poured several shots of green Chartreuse, a French liqueur made by Carthusian Monks since the 1740s. Audarshia Townsend: Lushing Out With LUPEC
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