What is "monastic order"

Usage examples of "monastic order".

The Broken Ones were a monastic order pledged to the martyr god Ilmater.

Knowing the monastic order to which it belonged, and suspecting some mischief.

Each man wore robes and a sigil to identify his place within the monastic order.

Benedict, when he wrote the Rule that established monastic order in the sixth century, had specified as a necessary provision for every guesthouse.

However, his mother and his uncle had made it painfully clear that he was going to do service as confrere knight in a monastic order .

However, his mother and his uncle had made it painfully clear that he was going to do service as confrere knight in a monastic order.

And then in 1118, during the reign of Baudouin II, nine young men led by a fellow named Hugues de Payns arrive and set up the nucleus of an order of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Jesus Christ: a monastic order, but with sword and shield.

There are some ways in which, obedience aside, they remind me more of the Jesuits than any militant monastic order.

I tumbled down almost the whole stairway, tripping over the hem of my habit (that was the only moment of my life, I swear, when I regretted having entered a monastic order!