#religious__religiou  a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
  supertype:  #religionist__religious_person__religiousperson  a person who manifests devotion to a deity
  instance:  #Thomas_Merton
  subtype:  #friar__mendicant  a male religious of an order of mendicant preachers of the gospel
     subtype:  #Carmelite__White_Friar  a Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order
     subtype:  #Dominican__Black_Friar__Blackfriar  a Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order
        instance:  #Girolamo_Savonarola__Savonarola
     subtype:  #Franciscan__Gray_Friar  a Catholic friar wearing the gray habit of the Franciscan order
  subtype:  #monk__monastic  a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
     subtype:  #Brother  (Roman Catholic) a title given to a monk and used as form of address; "a Benedictine Brother"
     subtype:  #Trappist__Cistercian  member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence
     instance:  #Roger_Bacon__Bacon  #Saint_Benedict__Benedict__St_Benedict  #Gregor_Johann_Mendel__Mendel__Gregor_Mendel
  subtype:  #Benedictine  a monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict
  subtype:  #nun  a woman religious
     subtype:  #Sister  (Roman Catholic) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address); "the Sisters taught her to love God"
     instance:  #Mother_Teresa__Teresa__Theresa__Mother_Theresa__Agnes_Gonxha_Bojaxhiu
  subtype:  #eremite  a Christian recluse
     subtype:  #anchorite__hermit  one retired from society for religious reasons
        subtype:  #Austin_Friar__Augustinian  one of the Catholic hermits of Saint Augustine
  subtype:  #cenobite__coenobite  a member of a religious order living in common
  subtype:  #superior  the head of a religious community
     subtype:  #better.superior  one having claim to precedence; a superior: "the common man has been kept in his place by his betters"
     subtype:  #abbess__mother_superior__prioress  the superior of a group of nuns
        instance:  #Saint_Bridget__Bridget__St_Bridget__Brigid__Saint_Brigid__St_Brigid__Bride__Saint_Bride__St_Bride  #Heloise
     subtype:  #abbot__archimandrite  the superior of an abbey of monks
        subtype:  #abbe  a French abbot
     subtype:  #prior  the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
  subtype:  #votary.religious  one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service: "monasteries of votaries"

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