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• (n.) 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. • (n.) A nun of the Order of Our lady of Mount Carmel. • (a.) Alt. of Carmelin
member of one of the four great mendicant orders (those orders whose corporate as well as personal poverty made it necessary for them to beg for ... [3 related articles]
The Carmelites are an order of nuns and monks which started on Mount Carmel in Israel about 800 years ago. The friars were brought to Britain in 1242 by returning crusaders; arriving first at Hulne in the north east of England and then, later in the same year, at Aylesford in the south. From England the Order soon spread to Scotland and also to Ire...
Car'mel·ite noun 1. (Eccl. Hist.) 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. 
[adj] - of or relating to the Carmelite friars 2. [n] - a Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order
adjective of or relating to the Carmelite friars; `Carmelite monasteries`