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A monk.

Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.

In a monastic manner.

The monastic life, system, or condition. Milman.

A book giving an account of monasteries.

ns of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

n by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid that the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. -- Canonical obedience, submission to the canons of a canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior cleargy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their…

A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties. Fitter for a cloister than a crown. Daniel. Cloister garth (Arch.), the garden or open part of a court inclosed by the cloisters.

r loss or privation; amends; remuneration; recompense. The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke.

A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.

Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. "A conventual garb." Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to a convent or monastery. Wordsworth.

erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law. -- Dean of a monastery, Monastic dean, a monastic superior over ten monks. -- Dean's stall. See Decanal stall, under Decanal.

The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. [Obs.] Blount.

A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

keep their wives afterward, but not to marry a second time, selects its bishops from the monastic clergy only, recognizes the offices of bishop, priest, and deacon as the three necessary degrees of orders, venerates relics and icons, and has an elaborate ritual.

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

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.

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

The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.