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chapterhouse

NOUN
  1. a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity
  2. a building attached to a monastery or cathedral; used as a meeting place for the chapter

How To Use chapterhouse In A Sentence

  • Next were the Gospel readings used at pretiosa (text recited after the reading from the Martyrology in the chapterhouse after the Office of Prime) .121 At the close of the manuscript are the Augustinian Rule and Raymond of Peñafort's version of the Order's constitutions. 122 A comparison between the prototype and the Unterlinden manuscript shows that the necrology is specific to the codex's community, in the first case the men in charge of the Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • No place — the cloister arcade, chapterhouse, infirmary, dormitories, refectory, kitchen, workrooms, or even the gardens — escaped the notice of Dominican women and their many forms of religious expression. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • I pushed open an ancient door and stepped into the chapterhouse, a single medieval room. Times, Sunday Times
  • I pushed open an ancient door and stepped into the chapterhouse, a single medieval room. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was there that they accused Adelheit of Breisach of heresy. 74 The nuns of Töss sometimes flagellated themselves in front of the monastery's chapterhouse. 75 Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • We begin with the most significant of these spaces, the church, and then examine the other places within the monastic precinct: the cloister walk, the chapterhouse, the infirmary, the refectory, the kitchen, the dormitory, the workrooms, and the gardens. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • But one look at the wall of guitars on this bunch of cutesy college kids and memories of Chapterhouse flood back instinctively.
  • The abbey ruin became a source of ready-worked building stone; only the chapterhouse survived. Times, Sunday Times
  • In spaces such as the choir, chapterhouse, or refectory, the constitutions 'aim was to control and guide the experience of sound in that environment. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • Her appeal was a simple one: it had been a year, almost, since she had saved him on the road and, since then, he had not strayed far from the chapterhouse and its workshops. One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber
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