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CARMELITE n. 2 definitions
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.
CARMELITE; CARMELIN a.
Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.
CALCED a.
Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.
FRIAR n.
iars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
MENDICANT a.
perty and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.
TERTIARY n.
rder in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third. Addis & Arnold.
WHITE FRIAR n.
A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.