Crossword-Solution: CARTHUSIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Carthusian | n. | A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086. |
| Carthusian | a. | Pertaining to the Carthusian. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CARTHUSIAN | anagram | CATHARINUS |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CARTHUSIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A monk or nun of strict order | 1 answer |
| MONKS, order of | 12 answers |
| MONASTIC order | 13 answers |
| Schoolgirl | 23 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with CARTHUSIAN (5)
Johnson has called 'metaphysical distresses.' It is striking enough to observe how differently the quiet monasteries of the Carthusian and Trappist brotherhoods affected Matthew Arnold and Robert Louis Stevenson.
During the Black Death no less than nine hundred Carthusian monks fell victims in one group of buildings.
Later on it was: “Did you hear what that boy said? What an extraordinary outbreak!” Presently a wave of scandalized astonishment (it could not have been greater if I had announced the intention of entering a Carthusian monastery) ebbing out of the educational and academical town of Cracow spread itself over several provinces.
Soon after, in 1139, the English Gilbertines were established, then came the White Canons, and in 1180 the Carthusian monks.
Alice sat duly remote from the company in a FAUTEUIL behind the projecting chimney-piece, or in the embrasure of a window, and prosecuted in Carthusian silence, with indefatigable zeal, a piece of embroidery, which seemed no bad emblem of eternity.
Quotes with CARTHUSIAN (2)
The usual notion of prayer is so absurd. How can those who know nothing about it, who pray little or not at all, dare speak so frivolously of prayer? A Carthusian, a Trappist will work for years to make of himself a man of prayer, and then any fool who comes along sets himself up as judge of this lifelong effort. If it were really what they suppose, a kind of chatter, the dialogue of a madman with his shadow, or even less — a vain and superstitious sort of petition to be give…
Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East, he'd certainly experience many new things, but he'd find first, that the food is under lock and key and second, that humans are considered to be a miserable, destructive, greedy lot, just as they are in the West.