Monastic definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary MONAS'TIC MONAS'TICAL, a ... temporal concerns of life and devoted to religion; as a monastic life; monastic orders. MONAS'TIC, n. A monk. WordNet (r) 3.0 ... from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical] n 1: a male religious living in a cloister ... devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work [syn: monk, monastic] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: circa 1563 1. of or ... as in seclusion or ascetic simplicity) life in a monastery • monastic noun • monastically adverb • monasticism noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. & ...
Monastic dean definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Dean Dean, n. [OE ... that they conform to the law. Dean of a monastery, Monastic dean, a monastic superior over ten monks. Dean's stall. See Decanal stall ...
... of vows or promises. 6. Engaged by vows to a monastic life; as a religious order or fraternity. 7. Appropriated to ... a religious house. RELIG'IOUS, n. A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concerns and devoted to a ... ant: irreligious] 3: of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows; "the religious or regular clergy conducts the service" [ant ... Date: 13th century a member of a religious order under monastic vows Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. & n. --adj. 1 devoted to ... or concerned with religion. 3 of or belonging to a monastic order. 4 scrupulous, conscientious (a religious attention to detail). --n. (pl. same) a person bound by monastic vows. Derivatives: religiously adv. religiousness n. Etymology: ME f. ...
... close — more at close Date: 13th century 1. a. a monastic establishment b. an area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted c. monastic life d. a place or state of seclusion 2. a ... enclosure surrounded by covered walkways and usually attached to a monastic or cathedral church; also, the walkways themselves. The earliest cloisters ... other, esp. in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral. 2 monastic life or seclusion. 3 a convent or monastery. --v.tr ... To walk the studious cloister's pale. --Milton. 3. A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious ... for nuns, a nunnery. An abbey is a convent or monastic institution governed by an abbot or an abbess; a ...
... ecclsiastical power. 2. Among catholics, not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confines to a monastery or subject ... sacred] 4: of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows; "the secular clergy" [ant: religious] 5: characteristic of those ... or clerical < secular courts > < secular landowners > 2. not bound by monastic vows or rules; specifically of, relating to, or forming clergy ... with religion or religious belief. 3 a not ecclesiastical or monastic. b (of clergy) not bound by a religious rule. 4 ... secular chains. --Milton. 4. (Eccl.) Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject ... 1. (Eccl.) A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. --Burke. 2. (Eccl.) A church official whose functions ...
... Webster's 1828 Dictionary CONVENTUAL, a. Belonging to a convent; monastic; as conventual priors. CONVENTUAL, n. One that lives in a ... from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical] Merriam Webster's I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from ... century 1. of, relating to, or befitting a convent or monastic life ; monastic 2. capitalized of or relating to the Conventuals • conventually adverb ... conventualis: cf. F. conventuel.] Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. ``A conventual garb.'' --Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or ... recluse. --Addison. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms I. a. Monastic. II. n. Monk or nun (as the case may ...
... L. monachus; Gr. a monk.] Pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic. Merriam Webster's adjective Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin ... Latin monachalis, from monachus monk — more at monk Date: 1587 monastic • monachism noun Webster's 1913 Dictionary Monachal Mon"a*chal ... monacal. See Monk.] Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.
... s 1828 Dictionary MONKERY, n. The life of monks; the monastic life. Merriam Webster's noun (plural -eries) Date: circa 1536 1. monastic life or practice ; monasticism 2. a monastic house ; monastery Webster's 1913 Dictionary Monkery Monk"er*y, n.; pl. Monkeries. 1. The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach ...
... from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Monastic Mo*nas"tic, Monastical Mo*nas"tic*al, a. [Gr ... 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. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. See monastic
Monasticism definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary MONAS'TICISM, n. Monastic life. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: asceticism as ... celibacy and poverty and obedience Merriam Webster's noun see monastic Webster's 1913 Dictionary Monasticism Mo*nas"ti*cism, n. The monastic life, system, or condition. --Milman. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Monastic life, monachism. Moby Thesaurus Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism ...
... 1828 Dictionary MON'ACHISM, n. The state of monks; a monastic life. Merriam Webster's noun see monachal Webster's 1913 ... n. [Cf. F. monachisme.] The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Monkery, monasticism, monastic life.
... a member of a religious order (as the Franciscans) combining monastic life and outside religious activity and originally owning neither personal ... alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are ... class, loafer, lounge lizard, lumpen proletariat, mendicant friar, mendicant order, monastic, monk, moocher, mooching, necessitous, needy, nonworker, on relief, out at ...