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Religious Orders and Communities, religious bodies, especially of the Christian church, whose members live under a distinctive rule, or discipline. The members of the greater number of Christian religious orders are ordained priests, although laypersons are admitted as brothers and nuns to some; a number of orders are for women only. See entries for individual religious orders. See also Friar; Mendicant Friars; Monasticism; Nun.