MONKERY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach. Miters, and wretched dead mediæval monkeries. Carlyle.

2.
n.

A collective body of monks. [Obs.] Though he have a whole monkery to sing for him. Latimer.


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