monasticmo‧nas‧tic /məˈnæstɪk/ adjective 
the monastic life a monastic community Roman Catholic monastic orders (=groups of monks)2similar to a monk’s way of living, for example quiet, simple, or not having sex: He led a rather monastic lifestyle.—monasticism /-tɪsɪzəm/ noun [uncountable]: early medieval monasticism
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a monastic order
- In some monastic traditions the Office is only one of a number of priorities.
- It's an almost monastic existence.
- The monastic chroniclers especially recorded with high indignation the resolute enforcement of the Forest jurisdiction over clerical offenders.
- The fate of the monastic libraries serves in popular imagination as a classic example of mindless iconoclasm.
- The monks are not inhospitable, but recognizing and acknowledging so many visitors would make a spiritual and monastic life impossible.
- This beautiful monastic ruin is set in a deeply wooded valley by the River Rye.
- Throughout the centuries, the monks of Clonmacnoise had suffered from raiders sailing up the Shannon to plunder the monastic city.
WORD SETS
acolyte, nounafterlife, nounagnostic, nounangel, nounanimism, nounanoint, verbapostasy, nounapostate, nounarchangel, nounbelieve, verbbeliever, nounbell-ringer, nounbless, verbblessed, adjectiveblessing, nouncelebrant, nounChristian Science, nouncircumcise, verbcircumcision, nouncommunion, nounconfession, nounconvent, nounconversion, nounconvert, nouncoreligionist, nouncowl, nouncredo, nouncreed, nouncult, noundaemon, nounDecalogue, noundefrock, verbdeism, noundenomination, noundenominational, adjectivedevotee, noundevotion, noundevotional, adjectivedevout, adjectivedivine, adjectivedivinity, noundruid, nounfaith, nounfast day, nounfeast, nounfervour, nounfiesta, nounfollow, verbfrankincense, noungentile, noungod, noungoddess, noungrace, nounhabit, nounhair shirt, nounhallelujah, interjectionhallowed, adjectivehalo, nounheathen, adjectiveheathen, nounheaven, nounheavenly, adjectivehell, nounheresy, nounheretic, nounhermit, nounhermitage, nounheterodox, adjectivehigh priest, nounidol, nounidolatry, nounincarnation, nounincense, nouninfidel, nounintercession, nouninvocation, nouninvoke, verbirreligious, adjective-ism, suffixlayman, nounlaywoman, nounlibation, nounliturgical, adjectiveliturgy, nounmartyr, nounmartyr, verbmeditate, verbmeditation, nounmission, nounmonastery, nounmonastic, adjectivemonk, nounmonotheism, nounMoonie, nounMormon, nounMosaic, adjectivemystery play, nounmystic, nounmystical, adjectivemysticism, nounneophyte, nounnovice, nounnovitiate, nounnuminous, adjectivenun, nounnunnery, nounoblation, nounobservance, nounoffering, nounOlympian, adjectiveordain, verborder, nounorthodox, adjectiveotherworldly, adjectivepagan, adjectivepagan, nounpantheism, nounpantheon, nounParsee, nounpilgrim, nounpilgrimage, nounpious, adjectivepluralism, nounpolytheism, nounpractise, verbpray, verbprayer, nounprayer wheel, nounpreach, verbpreacher, nounpriest, nounpriestess, nounpriesthood, nounpriestly, adjectiveprophet, nounprophetess, nounpurify, verbRasta, nounRastafarian, nounRastaman, nounRE, nounrecant, verbreincarnation, nounreligious, adjectivereligiously, adverbreliquary, nounrepent, verbretreat, nounrevelation, nounrevivalism, nounrite, nounritual, nounsacred, adjectivesacrifice, nounsacrifice, verbsacrificial, adjectivesanctify, verbsanctity, nounsanctuary, nounsanctum, nounsatanism, nounscripture, nounsect, nounsectarian, adjectiveservice, nounshaman, nounShinto, nounshrine, nounsin, nounsin, verbsinful, adjectivesinner, nounsoul, nounspirit, nounspiritual, adjectivespiritualism, nounspirituality, nounSr, sun god, nounsuppliant, nounsupplicant, nounsupplication, nounSupreme Being, nounTao, nounTaoism, nountemple, nountenet, nounthanksgiving, nountheism, nountheo-, prefixtheocracy, nountheologian, nountheological college, nountheology, nountonsure, nountranscendental, adjectivetranscendental meditation, nountransmigration, noununbelief, noununbeliever, nounungodly, adjectiveunholy, adjectiveunorthodox, adjectivevisionary, nounvoodoo, nounvotary, nounworship, verbworship, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Roman Catholic monastic orders (=groups of monks)COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
1relating to monks or life in a monastery: Roman Catholic monastic orders (=groups of monks)· In addition to the papal disregard of Canterbury's primatial claim over York, the monastic community suffered another grievous blow.· This distorted form of Buddhism spread rapidly thanks to a vast network of male and female monastic communities.· Through these channels the contemplative ideals developed in monastic communities found a wider audience.· Oddly enough, it was an area about which he felt quite as strongly as the members of the monastic community.· In many cases, the physical lay-out and arrangement of the monastic community were identical.· For Anselm, the voice of a local church, especially of a local monastic community, sufficed in most matters.· Its influence would be experienced throughout the whole monastic community, and beyond the cloister in the world.· In other places, such as Gloucester, boys were part of the monastic communities which preceded Deans and Chapters.
· The centre of his world, conceptually as well as in his personal life, was the monastic life.· The monks are not inhospitable, but recognizing and acknowledging so many visitors would make a spiritual and monastic life impossible.· He liked his association with the monastic life in this form.· Hunold was not executed, as we might expect, but returned to the obscurity of his monastic life.· Virtually every facet of monastic life was regulated either by the hour-glass or sundial; later by the clock.· He says he's done well to survive the monastic life for so long!· Bishop's change in theological position and his abandonment of monastic life both caused sorrow to his community.
· Knowledge of architectural features of style was dispersed partly by the monastic orders and partly by the great pilgrimages.· He and his twin brother, Michael, had previously founded a monastic order in Stroud.· Invitees were not only bishops, but heads of monastic orders, theologians representing the academic magisterium, even lay people.· A further indication of the hierarchical structure of the monastic order of monks and nuns is the growth of rules.· A number of monastic orders had churches here in the middle ages.
the monastic life a monastic community Roman Catholic monastic orders (=groups of monks)2similar to a monk’s way of living, for example quiet, simple, or not having sex: He led a rather monastic lifestyle.—monasticism /-tɪsɪzəm/ noun [uncountable]: early medieval monasticism