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ne of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." Chaucer. Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows…

man devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth.

Offensive to chastity or modesty; expressing of presenting to the mind or view something which delicacy, purity, and decency forbid to be exposed; impure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly. I. Watts.

Modesty; chastity. Howell.

Freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life.

To violate; to ravish; to defiour. [Obs.] Rich spoil of ransacked chastity. Spenser.

A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church. Bp. Fitzpatrick.

Like a saint; becoming a holy person. So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity. Milton.

Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.

One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.

ts which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity.

Violation of chastity by force; rape. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

r which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.

coition. Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity. Grew.

Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly. "Chastity and honor virginal." Spenser. Virginal generation (Biol.), parthenogenesis. -- Virginal membrane (Anat.), the hymen.

The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.

Specifically: Chastity; purity; especially, the chastity of women; virginity. H. I believe the girl has virtue. M. And if she has, I should be the last man in the world to attempt to corrupt it. Goldsmith.

Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. Not with wanton looking of folly. Chaucer. [Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton. Shak.