Monastic Synonyms

mə-năstĭk
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ascetic
  2. humble
  3. pious
  4. austere
  5. celibate
  6. cloistered
  7. devout
  8. contemplative
  9. monkish
  10. cloistral
  11. oblate
  12. reclusive
  13. secluded
  14. conventual
  15. solitary
  16. monastical
A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. monk

Words Related to Monastic

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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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