Hypertext Webster Gateway: "monastic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monastic \Mo*nas"tic\, n.
A monk.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monastic \Mo*nas"tic\, Monastical \Mo*nas"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?
monk: cf. F. monastique. See {Monastery}.]
1. Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants,
rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.
2. Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion;
recluse. ``A life monastic.'' --Denham.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
monastic
adj : of communal life sequestered from the world under religious
vows [syn: {cloistered}, {cloistral}, {conventual}, {monastical}]
n : a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself
to contemplation and prayer and work [syn: {monk}]
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