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One who announces; a messenger; a nuncio.
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One of an order of nuns founded by St. Angela Merici, at Brescia, in Italy, about the year 1537, and so called from St. Ursula, under whose protection it was placed. The order was introduced into Canada as early as 1639, and into the United States in 1727. The members are devoted entirely to education.
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A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
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Of or pertaining to St. Ursula, or the order of Ursulines; as, the Ursuline nuns.
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A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
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Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun.
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The act of nuncupating.
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Alt. of Nundinary
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of Nuncio
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of Nuncius
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of Nunnery
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A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.
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A covering for a person or thing; as, a nun's veil; a paten veil; an altar veil.
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One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618.
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A nundinal letter.
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Nuncupative; oral.
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The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios.
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To remove from condition of being a nun.
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To dedicate by declaration; to inscribe; as, to nuncupate a book.
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The office of a nuncio.
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