What is "monkish"

Usage examples of "monkish".

When we take the field our banner will not be any monkish device, but the silver knot of Stafford and the swan of Bohun.

Duke Edward and Duke Harry would have burned every monkish rookery in the land if it would have furthered one ell their march to the throne.

The surgeon was assisted by Petreckski, their monkish purser, his brown robe well concealing the blood of their wounded.

Melville had thought so at the time, but now here he was, stranded on a distant planet with a mad dwarven marine sergeant, a monkish purser, a beautiful elven surgeon, and a crew of stranded sailors, surrounded by dead aliens.

The use of a peculiar cant phraseology for different classes, it would appear, originated with the Argoliers, a species of French beggars or monkish impostors, who were notorious for every thing that was bad and infamous: these people assumed the form of a regular government, elected a king, established a fixed code of laws, and invented a language peculiar to themselves, constructed probably by some of the debauched and licentious youths, who, abandoning their scholastic studies, associated with these vagabonds.

Old World was drenched in blood to propagate the ideas which the French Revolution had proclaimed, the Presidency of Quito, walled in by its immense cordilleras and the ocean, and ruled by monkish ignorance and bigotry, knew as little of men and events as we now know of men and events in the moon.

With head and hearts perverted by monkish superstition and Spanish tyranny, yet set on fire by the French Revolution, what did they know of liberty!

Roger was dressed in the usual monkish attire of the time, a long loose gown with a cape, and a head covering resembling a small turban.

It claims to be an everlasting protest against priestly tyranny, and monkish authority, and abject spiritual servitude in the laity.

Catholic images were faintly and flatly delineated by monkish artists in the last degeneracy of taste and genius.

Once, the man in the monkish robe turned, on the timeworn step of the altar, and looked back over his shoulder, revealing a face that might well have been that of Asmodeus himself.

In many cases the ancient writing restored beneath is found to be infinitely more valuable than the monkish legends written afterwards.

A year or two in the cadets would have made all the difference, or a year of good, hard, monkish discipline at Nevarsin.

He was a tall, slender, and very experienced street agent, an ex-Marine, and positively monkish in appearance and demeanor.

Brought up by the Duc de Montausier, a sort of monkish soldier, and by Bossuet, a sort of military monk, Monsieur le Dauphin had no good examples from which to profit.