Car"mel*ite (?), Car"mel*in a.

Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.

 

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Car"mel*ite (?), n.

1. Eccl. Hist.

A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.

2.

A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel.

 

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