The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monastic \Mo*nas"tic\, Monastical \Mo*nas"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ? monk: cf. F. monastique. See Monastery.]
Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.
Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse. ``A life monastic.''
--Denham.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of monastic English)
WordNet
adj. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic]
Usage examples of "monastical".
Yet herein I will commend sundry of the monastical votaries, especially monks, for that they were authors of many goodly borowes and endwares,near unto their dwellings although otherwise they pretended to be men separated from the world.
But in these our colleges we live in such exact order, and under so precise rules of government, as that the famous learned man Erasmus of Rotterdam, being here among us fifty years passed, did not let to compare the trades in living of students in these two places, even with the very rules and orders of the ancient monks, affirming moreover, in flat words, our orders to be such as not only came near unto, but rather far exceeded, all the monastical institutions that ever were devised.
Does the law of nature look on that absolute chastity so recommended in monastical institutions, as a virtue?