Crossword-Solution: TRAPPIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trappist | n. | A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “TRAPPIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Cistercian monk. | 1 answer |
| Member of a silent religious order | 1 answer |
| Quiet monk | 1 answer |
| SILENT monk | 1 answer |
| Venerable beer brewer | 1 answer |
| member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence | 1 answer |
| Thomas Merton. | 2 answers |
| Cistercian | 4 answers |
| A MALE MEMBER OF A RELIGIOUS ORDER THAT ORIGINALLY RELIED SOLELY ON ALMS | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with TRAPPIST (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.
Victor Dorn's system was as perfect as it was simple, and he held himself to it as rigidly as the father superior of a Trappist monastery holds his monks to their routine.
Now may some Languedocian Wordsworth turn the sonnet into patois: 'Mountains and vales and floods, heard YE that whistle?' At a place called La Bastide I was directed to leave the river, and follow a road that mounted on the left among the hills of Vivarais, the modern Ardeche; for I was now come within a little way of my strange destination, the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Snows.
And then, as our talk ran on, and it turned out that I was not a pedlar, but a literary man, who drew landscapes and was going to write a book, he changed his manner of thinking as to my reception (for I fear they respect persons even in a Trappist monastery), and told me I must be sure to ask for the Father Prior, and state my case to him in full.
For in a Trappist monastery each monk has an occupation of his own choice, apart from his religious duties and the general labours of the house.
Quotes with TRAPPIST (3)
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…
Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1954–2017).