Monastic Definition

mə-năstĭk
monastical, monastics
adjective
Of or characteristic of a monastery.
Webster's New World
Of or characteristic of monks or nuns or their way of life; ascetic, austere, etc.
Webster's New World
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noun
monastics
One living a monastic life.
Webster's New World
A monk.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Monastic

Noun

Singular:
monastic
Plural:
monastics

Origin of Monastic

  • Middle English monastik from Old French monastique from Late Latin monasticus from Late Greek monastikos from Greek monazein to live alone monastery

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Monastic Sentence Examples

  • The number of monastic institutions in the island is very small.

  • A monastic library was the proper place for this gentle emotional dreamer, who clung so fondly to the ancient traditions.

  • In the 2nd half of the 4th century lived the monk Gregory, who wrote a treatise on the monastic life.

  • After his elevation he wrote an abridgment for his monks of IEthelwold's De consuetudine monachorum, 5 adapted to their rudimentary ideas of monastic life; a letter to Wulfgeat of Ylmandun 6; an introduction to the study of the Old and New Testaments (about io08, edited by William L'Isle in 1623); a Latin life of his master i z Ethelwold 7; a pastoral letter for Wulfstan, archbishop of York and bishop of Worcester, in Latin and English; and an English version of Bede's De Temporibus.8 The Colloquium, 9 a Latin dialogue designed to serve his scholars as a manual of Latin conversation, may date from his life at Cernel.

  • Coptic papyri mainly contain Biblical or religious texts or monastic deeds.

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