carmelite Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers
    White Friar.
  2. adjective of or relating to the Carmelite friars
    • Carmelite monasteries

WordNet

Car"mel*ite, Car"mel*in adjective (Also<
  • Carmelite
  • Carmelin
)
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.
Car"mel*ite noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913