cenobitic

In the former, known as "cenobitic" (koinobion, coenobium, common life), there is a greater monastic rigor.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Seeking to live a more solitary life as a hermit, he left the cenobitic life of the Benedictine abbey to search for an appropriate refuge.

June 19: Feast of St. Romuald Terry Nelson 2006

Christianity, and wrote most scathingly against the Roman Catholic priesthood, and the cenobitic life of the monks, yet at times he had certain sympathies with Roman Catholicism.

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

So it was back to the drawing board for more experiments, but not before we picked up our custom-made brick stamp from the iron workshop at the nearby Coptic Monastery of Saint Pachomius (the ca. A.D. 290-346 founder of Christian cenobitic, or communal, monasticism, whose rule book of observances for monks is the earliest extant).

Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort: Part 2 2002

The cenobitic organization of the 5th century was that of a sept, whose chief was a Christian.

3. Ireland 2001

In the first half of the 4th century Pachomius (c. 290–346) established cenobitic (communal, in contrast to eremitic) monasteries for men and for women in Upper Egypt.

b. The Early Church 2001

Martin of Tours founded (c. 362) a cenobitic community of monks near Poitiers.

b. The Early Church 2001

With its hermitic and cenobitic antecedents, monasti - cism developed in the East, but received a unique direction in the West.

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968

It gave way, however, to the cenobitic, and no monastery now extant can be said really to resemble the ancient lauras.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

In the observance of the Rule, however, the greater monasteries are divided into two classes, some following strictly the cenobitic life, while others permit a larger personal freedom.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913