coenobium

This central church was the origin of what was afterwards called the coenobium or house of the imperfect, or of "children".

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

Every group of hermits and every coenobium naturally had its superior.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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

St. Anthony introduced one form of community life the eremitical when, about the year A.D. 305, he undertook the direction and organization of the multitude of hermits who had gathered about him in the Thebaid; a second -- the coenobitical, or conventual, type of monachism -- was instituted by St. Pachomius, who, about the same time, founded his first coenobium, or conventual monastery, at Tabennae in the far south of Egypt.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

[2185] Canonicae, in the early church, were women enrolled in a list in the churches, devoted to works of charity, and living apart from men, though not under vows, nor always in a coenobium.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

But even St. Basil's "silence" with a view to preserving his coenobium from vain conversation, is a long way off the "silence" of St. Bruno's

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

So the ancient coenobium of women was maintained, and though all Egypt was by this time Jacobite or Moslem, and many of the older Sisters had departed this life within the last year, no one had thought of enquiring how it was that the number of the nuns remained still the same, till the Jacobite archbishop Benjamin filled the patriarchal throne of Alexandria in the place of the Melchite Cyrus.

The Bride of the Nile — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

So the ancient coenobium of women was maintained, and though all Egypt was by this time Jacobite or Moslem, and many of the older Sisters had departed this life within the last year, no one had thought of enquiring how it was that the number of the nuns remained still the same, till the Jacobite archbishop Benjamin filled the patriarchal throne of Alexandria in the place of the Melchite Cyrus.

The Bride of the Nile — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

So the ancient coenobium of women was maintained, and though all Egypt was by this time Jacobite or Moslem, and many of the older Sisters had departed this life within the last year, no one had thought of enquiring how it was that the number of the nuns remained still the same, till the Jacobite archbishop Benjamin filled the patriarchal throne of Alexandria in the place of the Melchite Cyrus.

The Bride of the Nile — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

So the ancient coenobium of women was maintained, and though all Egypt was by this time Jacobite or Moslem, and many of the older Sisters had departed this life within the last year, no one had thought of enquiring how it was that the number of the nuns remained still the same, till the Jacobite archbishop Benjamin filled the patriarchal throne of Alexandria in the place of the Melchite Cyrus.

Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867