conventually
English
editEtymology
editFrom conventual + -ly.
Adverb
editconventually (comparative more conventually, superlative most conventually)
- In a conventual manner.
- 1902, Ethelred Luke Taunton, Thomas Wolsey: legate and reformer, page 119:
- They possessed one-half of the English sees in so far as there was attached to the cathedral a monastery whose monks served the cathedral, and formed, conventually, the Chapter which had the right of election.
- 1987, The Downside Review, volume 105, page 152:
- Andrew Skinner of Yorkshire, 'a Devote and Oblate of our Order', lived conventually for many years at the monastery in Dieulouard, Lorraine, before returning to England to live with his brother and to die in 1672.