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Monastic definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MONAS'TIC
MONAS'TICAL, a. [Low L. monasticus; Gr. sole, separate.]
Pertaining to monasteries, monks and nuns; recluse; secluded from the temporal concerns of life and devoted to religion; as a monastic life; monastic orders.
MONAS'TIC, n. A monk.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical] n
1: a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work [syn: monk, monastic]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: circa 1563 1. of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns 2. resembling (as in seclusion or ascetic simplicity) life in a monastery • monastic noun • monastically adverb • monasticism noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or relating to monasteries or the religious communities living in them. 2 resembling these or their way of life; solitary and celibate. --n. a monk or other follower of a monastic rule. Derivatives: monastically adv. monasticism n. monasticize v.tr. (also -ise). Etymology: F monastique or LL monasticus f. Gk monastikos (as MONASTERY)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Monastic Mo*nas"tic, n. A monk.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Monastic 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Monastic means relating to monks or to a monastery. He was drawn to the monastic life. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a.; (also monastical) 1. Monkish, monachal, conventual, cenobitic, cenobitical. 2. Secluded, recluse.

Moby Thesaurus

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