单词 | monachal |
释义 | monachaladj. Now rare. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a monk or of monastic life; monastic; monkish. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [adjective] monklyOE monastical1402 monasterialc1443 claustralc1449 cloistrosec1449 monkish1536 monastic1563 abbey-like1570 cloisterly1570 cloistered1581 cloistral1606 monachal1607 monasterical1651 monial1656 1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 166 Papists, who..make the vowe, and profession of the monachall, or life of a Monch, as good a token of Christians, as Baptisme. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 76 This monachall and licentious life. 1685 A. Lovell tr. R. Simon Crit. Hist. Relig. Eastern Nations xv. 159 There are no Monachal Constitutions that so much oblige Monks to obey their Superiour, as [etc.]. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 368 If a child..has taken on himself the Monachal or Monkish Tonsure. 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 374 Under every creed, monachal austerity and seclusion had been attempted. 1889 F. W. Farrar Lives Fathers II. xvi. 237 Jerome seems to have had the monacal feelings which led him wholly to avoid the society of women. 1911 ‘M. Field’ Dian i. i, in Trag. Pardon 136 To monachal, sour Spain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1607 |
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