Definitions
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- noun a member of a religious order living in common. Same as
cenobite .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
cenobite .
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- noun a member of a religious order living in common
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Examples
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Species of particular note include coconut crab Birgus latro (R) (identified from remains collected in 1987), at least two coenobite species (one of which was found to be the commonest crustacean on the island in 1987), and spiny lobster Panulirus penicillatus (CT).
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In company with Alypius and Nebridius, he sincerely lamented that this fair dream of coenobite life was impracticable.
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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For a time he tasted the life of the anchorite and the coenobite.
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 William Holden Hutton 1895
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It was a new light to him, for, as his instructor suspected, he shared the common view of coenobite aims, and still but imperfectly understood the law of Benedict.
Veranilda George Gissing 1880
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It was to his ancestral Scyllacium that Cassiodorus retired; and here, between the mountains of Aspromonte and the sea, he founded his monastery, or, more accurately, his two monasteries, one for the austere hermit, and the other for the less aspiring coenobite.
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
yarb commented on the word coenobite
The meridian demon was upon him; he was possessed by that bored and hopeless post-prandial melancholy which the coenobites of old knew and feared under the name of "accidie."
- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
March 29, 2008