Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
monastic .
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- adjective Alternative form of
monastic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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Examples
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Ademar's Apostolic Mass was written to commemorate the planned recognition of Martial's promoted status, but the event was a failure, sabotaged by Ademar's more famous monastical contemporary, Benedict, who regarded the Martial hagiography as nonsense; Ademar tried to appeal to the pope, but was denied the chance.
Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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Ademar's Apostolic Mass was written to commemorate the planned recognition of Martial's promoted status, but the event was a failure, sabotaged by Ademar's more famous monastical contemporary, Benedict, who regarded the Martial hagiography as nonsense; Ademar tried to appeal to the pope, but was denied the chance.
Imitation of life Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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No one expects the presidency to be monastical of course.
Bob Cesca: Senator McCain Isn't Funny, So Stop Encouraging Him 2008
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That which is written of Saint Francis 'five wounds, and other such monastical effects, of him and others, may justly be referred to this our melancholy; and that which Matthew Paris relates of the [6469] monk of
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And methinks some time or other, amongst so many rich bachelors, a benefactor should be found to build a monastical college for old, decayed, deformed, or discontented maids to live together in, that have lost their first loves, or otherwise miscarried, or else are willing howsoever to lead a single life.
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Tickletoby notwithstanding peremptorily bid him provide himself elsewhere if he would, and not to hope for anything out of his monastical wardrobe.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Thou likest best monastical brewis, the prime, the flower of the pot.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Never yet did a man of worth dislike good wine, it is a monastical apophthegm.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Pish, said the monk, that is not the reason of it, but, according to the true monastical philosophy, it is because my nurse had soft teats, by virtue whereof, whilst she gave me suck, my nose did sink in as in so much butter.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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When day, peeping in the east, made the sky turn from black to red like a boiling lobster, he waked us again to take a dish of monastical brewis.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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