About The Word Monastic
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Monastic
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What's The Definition Of Monastic?
[n] a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
[adj] of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows Synonyms | Synonyms for Monastic: cloistered | cloistral | conventual | monastical | monk | unworldly Related Terms | Find terms related to Monastic: abbacomes | abbot | ascetic | beadsman | brother | caloyer | celibataire | celibate | cenobite | claustral | cloistered | conventical | conventual | conventual prior | friar | grand prior | hermit | hieromonach | lay abbot | lay brother | mendicant | misogamic | misogamist | misogynist | misogynous | monachal | monasterial | monk | monkish | nun | palmer | pilgrim | pillar saint | pillarist | priest | prior | religieux | religious | single | stylite | unmarried See Also | Bacon | Benedict | Brother | Cistercian | Gregor Mendel | Johann Mendel | Mendel | religious | Roger Bacon | Saint Benedict | St Benedict | Trappist Monastic In Webster's Dictionary \Mo*nas"tic\, n.
A monk.
\Mo*nas"tic\, Monastical \Mo*nas"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ? monk: cf. F. monastique. See {Monastery}.] 1. Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules. 2. Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse. ``A life monastic.'' --Denham. |
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