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Websters 1828 Dictionary
Monastic 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
monastic 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 Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003)
monastic 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 nounmonastically adverbmonasticism noun

Oxford English Reference Dictionary
monastic
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)

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
monastic Monastic means relating to monks or to a monastery. He was drawn to the monastic life. ADJ: usu ADJ n

English Explanatory Dictionary
monastic məˈnæstɪk 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. øømonastically adv. monasticism n. monasticize v.tr. (also -ise). [F monastique or LL monasticus f. Gk monastikos (as MONASTERY)]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Monastic Mo*nas"tic, n. A monk.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
monastic a. ; (also monastical) 1. Monkish, monachal, conventual, cenobitic, cenobitical. 2. Secluded, recluse.

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "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




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