conversus

In the meantime, the mendicants, particularly the Franciscans, had secularized the grade of the conversus.

In terms of the monastery, he is a conversus, in contrast to those men who entered as children, termed oblatus.

He derives the curved (curvus) vault of the heavens from the Latin word for upside-down, conversus.

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It is natural enough that Cadfael, as a world weary soldier, should seek out that flexibility of this particular order as a conversus.

They stood at the opposite poles of oblatus and conversus, and they understood each other so well that few words ever needed to pass between them.

In the image of the time, the conversus was Martha, the sister of Mary Magdalene and Lazarus.

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Liber Psalmorum: hebraicus atque latinus ab Hieronymo ex hebraeo conversus.

Deus tu conversus (bibl.)

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All was not harmony between the two groups, as we shall see, but it cannot be doubted that the status of the lay friar was well above that of the Cistercian conversus.

Here we have Brother Edmund, a child of the cloister from his fourth year, and Brother Cadfael, conversus after an active and adventurous life and at a mature age.

The days were over when it could be said, as it had been at Cluny, that, save as a labouring conversus, 'no son of a villein will ever be in my cloister'.

Probably in 1478, Hugo entered Rood Klooster, a monastery in Oudergem near Brussels belonging to the Windesheim Congregation, and professed there as a frater conversus.

In all boroughs, however, there is a tendency to talk at times when people from other places would normally listen; this conversus interruptus is not considered impolite because it is an expression of interest.

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Afterwards, the different status of the lay brother in the several orders of monks, and the ever-varying regulations concerning him introduced by the many reforms, destroyed the distinction between the conversus and the oblatus.

The buying group included Oak Hill Investment Management, Conversus Capital, Lexington Partners, HarbourVest, Coller Capital and Pantheon Ventures.

A buyer group comprising Oak Hill Investment Management, Conversus Capital, Lexington Partners, HarbourVest, and Pantheon Ventures paid as much as $3 billion for the portfolio.

As a character, Cadfael is a conversus, only entering the cloister in his forties after being both a soldier and a sailor; this experience gives him an array of talents and skills useful in monastic life.

Our period witnessed a radical change in the institution of the conversus, largely because of the increasing opportunity of joining the religious on terms more consonant with the growing personal freedom seen among the laity both rural and urban.

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But in 1625, we find the conversus reduced below the status of the commissus, inasmuch as he could make only simple vows for a year at a time; he was in fact indistinguishable, except by his dress, from the oblatus of a former century.