conventual
- s of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
- There is a good reason for such policy: Cosi's ten sister-staffers want their magazine to stand as more than a conventual oddity.
- Out of that beginning grew orders of deaconesses for service and of conventual nuns for contemplation.
- She greatly admired Frank de Lacey, who had built himself a hut in the woods and went there to meditate, but she was not ready for so conventual a life.