单词 | monachize |
释义 | monachizev. 1. transitive. To make monastic. ΚΠ 1867 Christian Remembrancer Apr. 293 In Egypt the two western monks saw a whole population monachised. 1898 J. Miller tr. A. Harnack Hist. Dogma I. vi. 324 The tendency of the Church..to monachise the secular clergy, and finally also the laity. 1915 C. E. Stanley 10th Cent. Eng. Renaissance (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Iowa) 61 The monks made no effort to monachize the world; neither was service to humanity as an end in itself, their purpose. 1956 Bull. John Rylands Libr. 39 132 The great movement of reform..aimed, and in part succeeded, in monachizing the Church, by putting before the clergy..monastic discipline and monastic practices and ideals as the universal way of salvation. 1974 Tribune 4 May 25/3 Shall we all leave Chardin dead cold, and start monachising ourselves in petty, picayune journalistic fashion? 2000 W. H. Johnston Encycl. Monasticism (2015) 1183/2 The tendency to laicize the religion has been only the flip side of the tendency to monachize the lay life. 2. intransitive. To live the life of a monk; to become a monk. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > monastic profession > [verb (intransitive)] > make profession profess?1510 to take the vows1845 monachize1876 society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > monastic profession > [verb (transitive)] > admit to monkOE orderc1330 profess?1430 cowl1536 clothe1628 monasticize1825 monachize1876 1876 Eddowes' Shrewsbury Jrnl. 1 Nov. 2/1 There was here a house of secular canons, which afterwards ‘monachised’, and became a Benedictine cell of Gloucester Abbey. 1884 R. Ornsby Mem. J. R. Hope-Scott I. 179 Individuals..were soon attempting to monachize, and to live as they thought that men in their places would have lived in the olden days. 1896 T. W. Allies Monastic Life Fathers of Desert to Charlemagne ix. 350 The number of kings, queens, and princesses of Odin's race who monachised shows how that new life had penetrated into the Saxon blood. 1900 W. Tuckwell Reminisc. Oxf. xi. 183 He [sc. John Henry Newman] had resigned St. Mary's, and was monachising with a few devotees in his barn-like Littlemore retreat. 1980 R. C. Trexler Public Life Renaissance Florence i. 36 In 1471 the paternal decision to monachize was taken at around six years of age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1867 |
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