Definitions for monastic

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monastic mo·nas·tic

Spelling: [muh-nas-tik]

IPA: /məˈnæs tɪk/

Monastic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 485 anagrams from letters in monastic (acimnost).

Definitions for monastic

noun

1. a member of a monastic community or order, especially a monk.

adjective

1. of or relating to monasteries:
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of monks or nuns, their manner of life, or their religious obligations:
3. of, relating to, or characteristic of a secluded, dedicated, or austere manner of living.

Origin of monastic

1400-50; late Middle English monastik Late Latin monasticus Late Greek monastikós, equivalent to monas- (verbid stem of monázein to be alone; see mon-) + -ikos

Examples for monastic

Many were the efforts to reform the abuses which crept into the monastic houses.

You are likely to pass by people who have devoted their lives to monastic services; leave them alone.

This should be manifestly clear this morning even to the most monastic heirs of David Broder.

The rest of the monastic buildings have been in ruins since the siege of 1832.

But his period of monastic seclusion officially comes to an end on Thursday.

Christianity spawned the monastic movement, originally in Egypt, that insisted upon peace, self-reliance, education and charity.

A Youtube video of some jet-setting Buddhist monks has Thailand scrambling to crack down on materialism in the monastic ranks.

We will now see the monks at work, and spend a day with them in their monastic home.

But with the passage of centuries the church and monastic building of Sta.

There's a monastic simplicity about this joint that endears it to me.