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Carmelite \Car"mel*ite\, Carmelin \Car"mel*in\ a. Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Carmelite \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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