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monialis [LL] 1 (as adj.) monastic: a of a monk; b of a nun; c of a monastery. a 12‥ garcifer magistri coci tribuat liberationes ~es Reg. Pri. Worc. 127b.  b patres eam moniali miserunt sub regula Hil. Ronce. 1. 47; a1158 concedo .. ancillis Christi de K. unum plenarium ~e corredium Ch. Westm. 264; s1286 Alienora regina .. suscepit habitum ~em et sacrum velamen Ann. Dunstable 326; 1335 accepto velamine ~i CalCh IV 334; de mulieribus que in habitu ~i .. continenciam non observant Gower VC IV cap. 13 tit.  c fervet adire Cole quo discat jus moniale Poem Hild. 66; si quando careat baculus pastore suoque / rege vacet sceptrum moniale, hec belua sedem / jam sibi sortitur viduam Hanv. V 149; 1342 legenda ~is Vis. Totnes 111; gradale ~e Ib. 113; missale est defectivum et ~e Ib.; legenda male ligata et de usu ~i Ib.. 2 who is a nun. benedictio virginis ~is Egb. Pont. 106; 940 ~is feminae (v. femina 1a); 1089 Kelmetunam quam dedit Serlo de Burri predicte ecclesie cum filia sua ~i Regesta 50; 1182 ad faciendum domos leprosarum ~ium Pipe 60. 3 (as sb. f.) nun; b (dist. as anchoress). aliae multae nobiles ~es in monastica vita Deo servientes in eodem monasterio habitant Asser Alf. 98; 932 fidelissimae familiae ~ium CS 691; hoc manerium est ad firmam de lx libris praeter victum ~ium (Heref) DB I 180ra; venerabilis vir, circiter septingentarum ~ium pater J. Sal. Pol. 403C; et monachorum, et ~ium, presbiterorum, et clericorum Normannorum Diceto YH 122; 1200 de placito quare ipsi fecerunt eam munialem CurR I 118; 1222 ~is consecrata , 1546 ~em professam (v. consecrare 3d); 1292 numerus monalium et sororum vestrarum .. excrevit Reg. Wint. 52; abbatisse cum eorum ~ibus Eul. Hist. I 213; sic ligat ordo sacer monachos, ligat et moniales Gower VC IV 553.  b Eddida ~is tenet in elemosina de rege xij acras terrae ... duae nonnae tenent de rege in elemosina ij virgas terrae (Som) DB I 91va; calumpniatur quedam pauper ~is iiij acras terre quas illa tenet sub Radulfo (Norf) DB II 264b. 4 (dist acc. order or w. ref. to colour of habit): a (~is nigra or sim.) Benedictine. b (~is alba) Cistercian or Austin canoness. c (~is S. Augustini) Austin canoness. a 1219 universis abbatibus .. et ~ibus nigri ordinis Wigornensis diocesis Doc. Eng. Black Monks I 8; 1537 prioratus nigrarum ~ium de Brewood Val. Eccl. III 103a.  b 1257 priorisse Albarum ~ium de Wygornia Cl 95; 1299 date fuerunt albis ~ibus de Wystan RB Worc. 87; 1537 monasterium albarum ~ium de Brewood in comit’ Salopie Val. Eccl. III 193.  c Harwolde prioratus ~ium S. Augustini, Sampson de Forte primus fundator MonA VI 330. 5 (as sb. f. or n.) mullion. 1357 in iiiijXX pedes ~ium empt’ , xxvj s. viij d., pro pede iiij d. (Sacr. Ely) Camb. Antiq. Soc. I 46; in cc pedes de ~ibus empt’ Ib.. 6 (as sb n.) monastic allowance or corrody. 1364 in soluc’ facta cantoribus apud Beaurepaire pro monial’ in ij robis empt’ .. xxiij s. iiij d. Ac. Durh. 44; 1374 in expensis coquine per tempus compoti per dominum Willelmum de Werdale xxxiiij l. xvj s. viij d. in solucione facta domino Johanni de Schaftowe pro ~i suo xxxij s. ix d. Finc. lxxxix; 1397 item domino Roberto Crayk pro suo ~e vers’ cur’ Rom’ xlvj s. viij d. Ac. Durh. 600. 7 nunnery. 1586 monasteria, abbatias, prioratus, monalia Entries 488a..

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