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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical]

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. See monastic