monastic

/mə'næstik/
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monastic

A monk lives a monastic life of prayer and work in a secluded community.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Relating to monks, nuns, or monastic life: Pertaining to the life, practices, or characteristics of a religious community living apart from the world under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
    • Resembling or characteristic of a monastic life: Suggestive of the simplicity, seclusion, discipline, or asceticism associated with monks or monasteries.

  2. Noun:

    • A member of a monastic community: A person, typically a monk or a nun, who lives under religious vows in a monastery, convent, or similar community.
Usage Examples
  • Adjective:
    • The old castle had a stark, monastic simplicity to its architecture.
    • He adopted a monastic lifestyle of early mornings, study, and minimal possessions.
  • Noun:
    • The monastic spent his days in prayer, meditation, and tending the garden.
    • She decided to become a monastic and join the secluded convent.
Advanced Usage
  • "monastic silence": A profound, rule-enforced quiet typical of a monastery.
    • A monastic silence fell over the retreat center after evening prayers.
  • "monastic order": A religious community or society living under a specific rule.
    • The Benedictines are one of the oldest monastic orders in the Christian tradition.
Variants and Related Words
  • Monasticism (n): The monastic system or way of life.
    • The history of Christian monasticism spans many centuries.
  • Monastically (adv): In a monastic manner.
    • He lived monastically, even though he was not a member of a religious order.
Synonyms
  • Adjective: Ascetic, cloistered, conventual, hermitic, secluded.
  • Noun: Monk, friar, brother, cenobite (for communal monastics), nun (specifically female).
Related Phrases
  • "monastic vows": The formal promises (e.g., poverty, chastity, obedience) taken by a monastic.
    • He took his final monastic vows after years of preparation.
  • "monastic community": A group of people living together under a monastic rule.
    • The monastic community was self-sufficient, growing its own food.
monastic

A monk lives a monastic life of prayer and work in a secluded community.

Adjective
  1. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Noun
  1. a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work

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