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the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

A monastery; a convent of friars. Drugdale.

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.

A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited. [Obs.]

A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.

A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.

A room for conversation; especially, a room in monasteries, where the monks were allowed to converse.

ary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church. Minster house, the official house in which the canons of a cathedral live in common or in rotation. Shipl…

Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.

One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.

world, and devotes himself to religion; one 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…

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

Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude. -- Monk"ish*ness, n.

A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.

Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.

An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. Piers Plowman.

A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed. Shpiley.