(n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(3) It stands 25km north of Damascus, near the ancient Saydnaya monastery where Christians and Muslims have prayed together for centuries.
(4) The Ioannou family were originally fishermen, and still bring in the catch and cook it fresh to order • +30 22270 31487 Don't miss Just to the south of Limni is the monastery of Ayiou Nikolaou Galataki, set on the wooded slopes of the mountains overlooking the mainland.
(5) Neither of them - both now teenagers - lives in Tashilumpo monastery.
(6) In May, masked men abducted Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, from the Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain, near the Isis-held ancient city of Palmyra.
(7) The latter rivalry may play an important role in social relations within and among Buddhist monasteries.
(8) This picturebook-romantic Romanesque monastery with a handful of houses attached is tucked between the faded pinks and yellows of laid-back seaside resort Camogli and chi chi Portofino, with its superyachts and Dior boutiques selling €1,000 sandals.
(9) I walked down into town from the pagoda and was enveloped in a happy crowd outside a monastery celebrating the full moon.
(10) Founded in 1088, the monastery’s fortress-like walls dominate the island’s skyline.
(11) SuperSub Monastery art, southern Serbia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frescoes at Zica Monastery, near Kraljevo.
(12) In recent years, the maharishi, who broadcasts on a private satellite channel from a converted monastery in Vlodrop, in Holland, has proffered opinions on everything from crime to the Israel-Palestine conflict to how countries can best foster military defence.
(13) Gayed entered the El Suryan (St Mary) monastery in Egypt's remote western desert in July 1954.
(14) A vivid account of the Viking raid in 793, regarded as the first major attack in a century of terror for vulnerable monasteries and settlements along the coast, appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(15) Palmyra – what the world has lost Read more They include “all the Christian churches in Mosul, most of the monasteries – some of the earliest Christian sites in the world”.
(16) Tisannyi monastery has caught fire "multiple times since 2009", it said.
(17) "For several years the authorities have been piling pressure on the monastery – and on monasteries in general.
(18) The International Campaign for Tibet said hundreds of Tibetans gathered at the monastery in Aba county, also known as Ngaba, believing the authorities were preparing to forcibly remove the monks for "patriotic education".
(19) Free Tibet said Choepel had been expelled from the monastery after Phuntsog's death.
(20) Once they landed, the warriors could forage with ruthless efficiency, as many a coastal community or wealthy monastery discovered.
Penitentiary
Definition:
(a.) Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
(a.) Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.
(a.) Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
(n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
(n.) One who does penance.
(n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
(n.) That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
(n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.
(n.) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
(n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(2) An earlier major exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s work, held inside Alcatraz island penitentiary in the San Francisco bay, featured works made out of the plastic construction toys.
(3) He commented: “I’m talking about my experiences of walking into a penitentiary that I would see in a movie like Shawshank Redemption , because it was an old prison.
(4) Two hundred and seventy-five Canadian Federal Penitentiary inmates from 9 institutions participated in a 3-hour assessment consisting of a structured interview and a batter of self-report tests to determine key social and demographic characteristics; type, frequency, and extent of substance use prior to incarceration; previous treatment for substance abuse; criminal history; and perceived relationship of criminal behavior to substance use.
(5) This was the image of the former News International chief executive mocked up as a Page 3 girl which recently led to a long-time subscriber in a US penitentiary having his copy confiscated on obscenity grounds.
(6) The epidemiologic situation for tuberculosis in the penitentiary-labour establishments at the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs was subjected to a comprehensive analysis with subsequent discussion of the results at a meeting of the staff of the Ministry of Public Health; instruction and plan of measures to be taken have been compiled by both ministries; a permanent board has been instituted for rendering help to medical workers of the penitentiary establishments; all law-protective organs have been involved in tuberculosis control; a specialized institution has been set up with a hospital for 200 beds intended for skilled examination and treatment of patients.
(7) On Wednesday night, 53 prisoners escaped from the Barreto Campelo penitentiary after explosives were used to blow a hole in an outer wall.
(8) Televisa also showed concurrent footage of what it said was the control center meant to be monitoring the prisoners in the Altiplano penitentiary not far from Mexico City.
(9) The subsequent and, in particular, the recent building re-structurations, have radically changed the penitentiary in order to make it more in line with the functions required by the present prison policy.
(10) Officials believe Lockett, who was convicted of shooting a 19-year-old woman and ordering a friend to bury her alive, died of a “massive heart attack” 43 minutes after his execution began Tuesday night at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester.
(11) This was a direct contradiction of one official's promise: "I can say one thing: Alyokhina will attend the parole hearing," a spokesman for the federal penitentiary service told the Russian Legal Information Agency on 12 July.
(12) Subjects were 136 male convicted felons in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.
(13) He was born in Hamburg on 21st August 1898 and beheaded in the Plötzensee penitentiary on 13th May 1943.
(14) As a result, the index of tuberculosis morbidity in the republican penitentiary-labour establishments reduced by more than half to promote an improvement of the epidemiologic situation in the republic.
(15) When I got out of the penitentiary (2 ) in 1969, I became a drug counsellor, and dedicated my life to helping other people.
(16) Tuberculosis morbidity in penitentiary-labour establishments (PLE) is scores of times higher than that among the population on the formation of which it has an influence.
(17) Conversely, the Reception Center group scored significantly higher than the Penitentiary group on the primaries, B, C, F, G, N, and Q3.
(18) The present investigation examined lifetime multiple disorders, measured by the DIS, among a representative sample of male penitentiary inmates.
(19) Within 20 seconds of receiving his lethal injection on Jan. 9 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, 38-year-old Michael Lee Wilson said: “I feel my whole body burning.” This statement described “a sensation consistent with receipt of contaminated pentobarbital,” Taylor alleges.
(20) The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of decayed, missing, and filled teeth among federal male prisoners (aged 21-75) in the US Penitentiary.