Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to monks or nuns; belonging to or characteristic of monastic life, especially with reference to external relations or personal conduct; monastic; monkish: as, monachal morals; monachal austerity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
monks or their lifestyle;monastic .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It would appear to be a sort of miracle that a man of sense, like Bouhours, should have committed such a mass of extravagance to the press, if we did not know to what excesses men can be carried by the corporate spirit in general, and the monachal spirit in particular.
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Therese had appeared herself in her brown garb and as monachal as ever.
The Arrow of Gold 2006
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These are monachal topics and maxims of the cloister.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But truly it is very unbeseeming to make so slight account of the works of men, seeing yourselves avouch that it is not the habit makes the monk, many being monasterially accoutred, who inwardly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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These are monachal topics and maxims of the cloister.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But truly it is very unbeseeming to make so slight account of the works of men, seeing yourselves avouch that it is not the habit makes the monk, many being monasterially accoutred, who inwardly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But alas! monachal piety was waxing cool and indifferent then, and it is rare to find the honorable title of an _Amator
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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Installed at the château, the Abbé Boiviel conformed himself with a very good grace to the monachal existence led by its inmates.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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My passion for my mistress had something fierce about it, for all my life had been severely monachal.
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Therese had appeared herself in her brown garb and as monachal as ever.
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