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Meanings of monastic in anglès
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.
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Examples for "cloistered"
Examples for "cloistered"
1
Anies should have been delivered into a cloistered nunnery thirty years ago.
2
No longer cloistered among freshman, he found it harder to be noticed.
3
Her cloistered upbringing has not prepared her very well for this moment.
4
Gower has his lover hear tales from a confessor in cloistered quiet.
5
We wander through cloistered courts into the main body of the church.
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The garden was conventual, the house had the air of a prison.
2
From that point of view conventual life might be bad for him.
3
This was the case in all the English conventual cathedrals, e.g.
4
In her uneasiness she appealed to Father Certificatus, the conventual confessor.
5
In the year 1528, James V. added a palace to the conventual buildings.
1
So she loved the cloistral feeling autumn brought with it to Welsley.
2
There is nothing cloistral about the University of Chicago except its architecture.
3
Raphael's mind was large; and larger by being conscious of its cloistral limitations.
4
Mr. Prohack, despite a cloistral lifetime at the Treasury, recognised her type immediately.
5
Gradually she became accustomed to govern her tongue, and to this cloistral silence.
1
Thou likest best monastical brewis, the prime, the flower of the pot.
2
Never yet did a man of worth dislike good wine, it is a monastical apophthegm.
3
When monastical writers became famous, they were usually designated from the religious houses to which they belonged.
4
Does the law of nature look on that absolute chastity so recommended in monastical institutions, as a virtue?
5
Nearer, their pointed hoods made them monastical as a procession stealing from a range of cells to chant a midnight mass.
Usage of monastic in anglès
1
The expenses of the Roman Curia increased; the monastic Orders were wealthy.
2
Absolutely nothing was left in the house after the monastic sacked it.
3
There had long been other monastic Rules known in the Frankish territories.
4
There is a moral lesson in these memorials of the monastic ages.
5
You and I have lived over forty years in the monastic life.
6
There was an almost monastic air of strict minimum about the place.
7
In Egypt there is a similar ambiguity about the first monastic institutions.
8
The monastic profession of the ancients was an act of voluntary devotion.
9
The cathedral and monastic schools served to keep alive the ancient learning.
10
The monastic houses fall often under the arrogant rule of lay abbats.
11
Athleticism in England is an asceticism, as much as the monastic rules.
12
It reminded him dimly of a similar resting-place during his monastic life.
13
Many abbesses came to run monastic communities; they were from royal families.
14
No Kevin or Finbarr chanced this way to found a monastic settlement.
15
In the old monastic Books almost no Mention whatever of 'personal religion.'
16
As soon as she embraced the monastic life we read of hospitals.
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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