Charterhouse

Word CHARTERHOUSE
Character 12
Hyphenation char ter house
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Definitions and meanings of "Charterhouse"

What do we mean by charterhouse?

A Carthusian monastery. noun

A charitable institution or hospital and celebrated public school in London, founded in 1611 by Sir Thomas Sutton. noun

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London. noun

A Carthusian monastery. noun

A Carthusian monastery noun

A Carthusian monastery.

Charterhouse School is a famous English public school, located in Godalming in the county of Surrey. It was founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian Monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield (see Charterhouse). It is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Today, pupils are still referred to as Carthusians, and ex-pupils as Old Carthusians or OCs. As of 2006, Charterhouse is Britain's most expensive school with boarding and tutorial fees of £25,000+ per annum. Urban Dictionary

A shittiest alternative school in Richmond, that not only exploits traumatized children, but also exploits the teachers and therapist that work there. Well known for putting sexual predators and pedophiles in the same class room as sexually abused children. Urban Dictionary

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The word "charterhouse" in example sentences

The island takes its name from the Carthusians who followed: Certosa is Italian for "charterhouse," a monastery built by the Carthusian order. ❋ Lesley Riva (2008)

The name is derived from the French chartreuse through the Latin cartusia, of which the English "charterhouse" is a corruption. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Tomorrow, I'm "preaching with my hands", or at least conversing with them, at the RevGalBlogPals Monday book discussion: on the DVD Into Great Silence (filmed inside a Carthusian charterhouse) and the book An Infinity of Little Hours (a chronicle of five novices who try the Carthusian life in the 1960s). ❋ Michelle (2008)

No woman, save the sovereign, may enter a charterhouse. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The first English house of the order -- the first charterhouse -- was founded by King Henry II at Witham in ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He built the present cathedral choir about 1481, and founded a charterhouse at Svartsjo about 1493 and a hospital for aged and infirm priests at Strengnäs in ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

To the institutions mentioned throughout the article must be added the charterhouse of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

At the time of Henry VIII's breach with Rome the monks, especially those of the London charterhouse (founded 1370), offered a stanch resistance. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The two fathers live exactly as if in a charterhouse, attending Office in stalls placed in the sanctuary of the church, which is divided from the nuns 'choir by a curtained grille. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

They were constructed after the manner of a charterhouse, but on a smaller scale. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A charterhouse was founded at Perth in 1429 by King ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Somersetshire, in 1181 (with a cell on Mendip); the last was the celebrated charterhouse of Sheen in Surrey, founded in 1414 by king ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Having entered the charterhouse of Buxheim, in the Diocese of ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The first English charterhouse was founded at Witham in Somerset by ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

By lingual corruption, just as each house of that order is known in Spain as cartuja and in Italy as certosa, so in England the corruption of Chartreux took the form of charterhouse. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Copes and monstrances are unknown in the charterhouse. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The visitors, who are appointed by the chapter, make a visitation of each charterhouse every two vears, to enquire into its condition and reform any abuses. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The first book printed at a charterhouse was issued from the presses of the Seliola Dei near Parma in 1477. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The chief feature of the life in a charterhouse is its complete solitude, which has served to preserve intact in all its austerity the original spirit of the order; so that the saying that it has never been reformed because it never grew lax is justified -- "Cartusia nunquam reformata, quia nunquam deformata." ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"[I go] to Charterhouse, it's [like so] much better than [Eton]" ❋ Clive King VIII (2006)

I just raped my [2 year old] sister. Now I get to go to [UMFS Charterhouse school], where they will tell me I am a good boy, and I get to [molest] other kids in middle school. ❋ The Dirtiest Sanchez Ever (2019)

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