carmelite(n = noun.person) white friar - a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers;
is a kind of friar, mendicant
is a member of carmelite order, order of our lady of mount carmel
Derived form adjective carmelite1
carmelite(a = adj.pert) - of or relating to the Carmelite friars; "Carmelite monasteries"
Derived form noun carmelite1
Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites. [1913 Webster]
1. 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. [1913 Webster]
2. A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel. [1913 Webster]
carmelite, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a friar of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, following a rule of extreme asceticism.
2 a nun of a similar order.
--adj. of or relating to the Carmelites.
Etymology:
F Carmelite or med.L carmelita f. Mt. Carmel in Palestine, where the order was founded in the 12th c.
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