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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
monastic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
community
▪ In addition to the papal disregard of Canterbury's primatial claim over York, the monastic community suffered another grievous blow.
▪ This distorted form of Buddhism spread rapidly thanks to a vast network of male and female monastic communities.
▪ Through these channels the contemplative ideals developed in monastic communities found a wider audience.
▪ Oddly enough, it was an area about which he felt quite as strongly as the members of the monastic community.
▪ In many cases, the physical lay-out and arrangement of the monastic community were identical.
▪ For Anselm, the voice of a local church, especially of a local monastic community, sufficed in most matters.
▪ Its influence would be experienced throughout the whole monastic community, and beyond the cloister in the world.
▪ In other places, such as Gloucester, boys were part of the monastic communities which preceded Deans and Chapters.
life
▪ The centre of his world, conceptually as well as in his personal life, was the monastic life.
▪ The monks are not inhospitable, but recognizing and acknowledging so many visitors would make a spiritual and monastic life impossible.
▪ He liked his association with the monastic life in this form.
▪ Hunold was not executed, as we might expect, but returned to the obscurity of his monastic life.
▪ Virtually every facet of monastic life was regulated either by the hour-glass or sundial; later by the clock.
▪ He says he's done well to survive the monastic life for so long!
▪ Bishop's change in theological position and his abandonment of monastic life both caused sorrow to his community.
order
▪ Knowledge of architectural features of style was dispersed partly by the monastic orders and partly by the great pilgrimages.
▪ He and his twin brother, Michael, had previously founded a monastic order in Stroud.
▪ Invitees were not only bishops, but heads of monastic orders, theologians representing the academic magisterium, even lay people.
▪ A further indication of the hierarchical structure of the monastic order of monks and nuns is the growth of rules.
▪ A number of monastic orders had churches here in the middle ages.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a monastic order
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In some monastic traditions the Office is only one of a number of priorities.
▪ It's an almost monastic existence.
▪ The monastic chroniclers especially recorded with high indignation the resolute enforcement of the Forest jurisdiction over clerical offenders.
▪ The fate of the monastic libraries serves in popular imagination as a classic example of mindless iconoclasm.
▪ The monks are not inhospitable, but recognizing and acknowledging so many visitors would make a spiritual and monastic life impossible.
▪ This beautiful monastic ruin is set in a deeply wooded valley by the River Rye.
▪ Throughout the centuries, the monks of Clonmacnoise had suffered from raiders sailing up the Shannon to plunder the monastic city.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monastic

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

Monastic

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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
monastic

mid-15c., from Middle French monastique "monkish, monastic," or directly from Late Latin monasticus, from Ecclesiastical Greek monastikos "solitary, pertaining to a monk," from Greek monazein "to live alone" (see monastery). Related: Monastical (c.1400).

Wiktionary
monastic

a. Of or relating to monastery or monks. n. A person with monastic ways; a monk.

WordNet
monastic

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

monastic

n. a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work [syn: monk]

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Usage examples of "monastic".

Whatever opinions may be formed of the monastic orders in relation to the present, this much is certain, that they were the chief civilizers of Europe, and the chief agents in delivering European society from feudal barbarism.

As I have said, I had made up my mind to pay the place a visit, and on our way Menicuccio told me that the women of the convent were not nuns, properly speaking, as they had never taken any vow and did not wear a monastic dress.

After her hair had been dressed, she took off her gown, locked up her jewellery in her bureau, put on the stays of a nun, in which she hid the two magnificent globes which had been during that fatiguing night the principal agents of my happiness, and assumed her monastic robes.

Having got the key of the fields, he went to Rome, and threw himself at the feet of Pope Rezzonico, who absolved him of his sins, and released him from his monastic vows.

The abbot had conceived of a small Nomadic library he wanted created as a donation of high culture from the monastic Memorabilia of Christian civilization to the benighted tribes still wandering the northern Plains, migrant herdsmen who would one day be persuaded into literacy by formerly edible missionaries, already busy among them and no longer considered edible under the Treaty of the Sacred Mare between the hordes and the adjacent agrarian states.

Compendium, which is thus known to contain the working methods of all the monastic illuminators, mosaicists, glass painters, enamellers, and so forth, throughout Germany, Lombardy, and France, consists of three books, containing altogether one hundred and ninety-five chapters of definite and special instructions in artistic matters.

In over two thousand closely printed pages, it managed to include all the festal days, the Hours of the monastic Office, the complex and elaborate rites once performed between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday, the psalms and their intonations, a wealth of antiphons, Glorias, Credos, Introits, Graduals, smatterings of Ambrosian and even Gallican chant, and much more.

Honoria could no longer aspire, and whose monastic assiduity of prayer, fasting, and vigils, she reluctantly imitated.

There he lived with monastic cleanliness and severity, glad to be rid of his cousin and her inconsequential housewifery, and resolved to remain a bachelor, like his uncle.

Javan murmured, pausing to take up the night-light set in a niche in the corridor before leading Charlan into the tiny room designated as his monastic cell.

No trace of the murrain had blighted the monastic herds, Rat-bold had told him last night, but the prior had spoken the words in the way a man relays information that his listener already knows.

Monastic influence accounts for the practice of adding to the reading of a biblical passage some patristic commentary or exposition.

Louis scourged to exile the remnant of wastrels and gallants that had demoralized his court and settled down to a monastic quiet in which the trivium and the quadrivium resumed their proper ascendancy over romance and gasconnade.

Brother Sacrist hesitates in confusion but when Father Ortulfus lifts his voice in the opening chant, he slips into his place at the front with the other monastic officials, setting the unused pot of oil at his feet.

He had entered the Holy Gate of the sangha, the monastic community of Buddhist believers.