Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
cenobitic .
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- adjective Alternative form of
cenobitic .
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- adjective of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living
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Examples
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Their life is strictly cenobitical, that is to say, life in common in its most absolute form.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Within twenty years this hermitage already possessed a subject house, and by the middle of the fourteenth century we find the Prior of San Mattia making a visitation of his suffragan monasteries, and the hermitage itself adopting the cenobitical life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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But religious obedience, as we understand it now, began only with the cenobitical life, and at the time of which we speak there was nothing to oblige the cenobite to remain in the monastery.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith alone; Nicholas Ferrer, the enthusiast who dreamed of reviving the cenobitical idea in the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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An aspirant to the solitary or to the cenobitical life at Camaldoli has to undergo a long and severe probation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Camaldolese Order; the former foreshadowing the eremitical, the latter the cenobitical, branches.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The lay brothers live an entirely cenobitical life, and are occupied in the servile work of the establishment.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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An important change in the character of the order was made by Rudolph's extension of the cenobitical life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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They were numerous fervent centres of a partly cenobitical, partly eremetical life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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At first a hermitage was started; but soon, on account of the rapid influx of novices, it was found necessary to adopt the cenobitical manner of life.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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