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Definitions contemplative noun  A cloistered Roman Catholic religious. The Dominican is the image of St. Dominic. As a canon of Osma, before he became an apostole, he was a . Here is how Jordan of Saxony describes these years at Osma: "Day and night he frequented the church, giving himself without interruption to prayer. Redeeming the time by contemplation, he scarcely left the walls of the monastery." " William A. Hinnebusch, O.P., Dominican Spirituality: Principles and Practice http://www.op.org/DomCentral/trad/domspirit/spirit03.htm online here adjective  Pertaining to one who contemplates or is introspective and thoughtful. 1873 Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he. " John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=480181972&tag=Mill,+John+Stuart,+1806-1873:+The+autobiography+of+John+Stuart+Mill,+1873&query=contemplative&id=MilAuto Chapter 5. Pertaining especially to a contemplative Roman Catholic religious or one of the contemplative Roman Catholic religious orders. 1870 Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House ... may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts. " Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=265723973&tag=Dickens,+Charles,+1812-1870:+The+Mystery+of+Edwin+Drood,+1870&query=contemplative&id=DicMyst Chapter 3 Supplemental Details:Sponsor an extended definition for contemplative for as little as $10 per month. Click here to contact us.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550100250500 results per page. Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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