MONASTIC - 10 definitions found
monastic adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical] n 1: a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work [syn: monk, monastic] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) monastic adjective Date: circa 1563 1. of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns 2. resembling (as in seclusion or ascetic simplicity) life in a monastery • monastic noun • monastically adverb • monasticism noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary monastic Monastic means relating to monks or to a monastery. He was drawn to the monastic life. ADJ: usu ADJ n English Explanatory Dictionary monastic məˈnæstɪk adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or relating to monasteries or the religious communities living in them. 2 resembling these or their way of life; solitary and celibate. --n. a monk or other follower of a monastic rule. øømonastically adv. monasticism n. monasticize v.tr. (also -ise). [F monastique or LL monasticus f. Gk monastikos (as MONASTERY)] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Monastic \Mo*nas"tic\, n. A monk. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Monastic \Mo*nas"tic\, Monastical \Mo*nas"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ? monk: cf. F. monastique. See Monastery.] 1. Of or 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 monastic a. ; (also monastical) 1. Monkish, monachal, conventual, cenobitic, cenobitical. 2. Secluded, recluse. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 41 Moby Thesaurus words for "monastic": abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire, celibate, cenobite, claustral, cloistered, conventical, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, misogamic, misogamist, misogynist, misogynous, monachal, monasterial, monk, monkish, nun, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, priest, prior, religieux, religious, single, stylite, unmarried |
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