Category:Carmelite

Car"mel*ite, Car"mel*in a.

Defn: Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.

carmelite Car"mel*ite, n.

1. (Eccl. Hist.)

Defn: 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.