monastic
nounEtymology From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.
1
A person with monastic ways; a monk.
monastic
adj/məˈnæstɪk/
Etymology From Middle French monastique, from Late Latin monasticus.
1
Of or relating to monasteries or monks.
- new monastic people
- “Fear not that, Edward,” exclaimed Halbert, who never gave his brother his monastic name of Ambrosius; “none obey the command of real duty so well as those who are free from the observance of slavish bondage.”1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 344:
- Derived terms
- antimonastic, monastically, monasticize, monastic sign language, nonmonastic, pseudomonastic, semimonastic, unmonastic
- Related terms
- monastery, monasticism, monk