Synonyms for monastic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : muh-nas-tik

Phonetic Transcription : məˈnæs tɪk

Définition of monastic

Origin : mid-15c., from Middle French monastique "monkish, monastic," or directly from Late Latin monasticus, from Ecclesiastical Greek monastikos "solitary, pertaining to a monk," from Greek monazein "to live alone" (see monastery). Related: Monastical (c.1400).

adj with communal life

Example sentences :

We will now see the monks at work, and spend a day with them in their monastic home.
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

Many were the efforts to reform the abuses which crept into the monastic houses.
Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield

But with the passage of centuries the church and monastic building of Sta.
Extract from : « Portuguese Architecture » by Walter Crum Watson

The rest of the monastic buildings have been in ruins since the siege of 1832.
Extract from : « Portuguese Architecture » by Walter Crum Watson

There's a monastic simplicity about this joint that endears it to me.
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

These things, and the like, are among the secrets of monastic life.
Extract from : « The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy » by Jacob Burckhardt

Monastic orders knew no (p. 341) distinction of nationality.
Extract from : « Henry VIII. » by A. F. Pollard

I wish you could have seen the camel who was my monastic jailer.'
Extract from : « The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 » by Various

I am not aware of Buckden having been the seat of a monastic establishment.
Extract from : « Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 » by Various

At that time all learning was in the hands of the clergy, the monastic orders, and the women.
Extract from : « One Snowy Night » by Emily Sarah Holt

Antonyms for monastic

sociable

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