"conversus" meaning in English

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          "text": "A story in the early thirteenth-century vita of Arnulf (d. 1228), a conversus who was Abundus’s confrere at Villers, offers us some insight into the kind of relationship Juette and Abundus may have had: […]",
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        "(chiefly historical) A lay brother."
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