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Meanings of cenobitical in English

Of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living.

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Examples for "cenobitic"
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Thus, step by step, organized or cenobitic monasticism easily and naturally came into existence.
A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
2
Śaṅkaraperceived the advantage of the cenobitic life for organizing religion and founded a number of maṭhsor colleges.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
3
Caroline, absorbed in the idea that you should eat merely to live, treats Adolphe to the delights of a cenobitic table.
Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part
1
The old coenobitic establishments of England were converted-perverted ,rather-intomonasteriesand other monking receptacles.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2
The principle of this order, which combined the coenobitic with the solitary life, demanded the erection of buildings on a novel plan.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
Usage of cenobitical in English
1
The cenobitical life rapidly and necessarily superseded that of the solitary.
Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
2
The Monastery of the Cenobitical Order was a large-walled compound built seven hundred thousand years ago on a damned-made hill of stone and cement.
The Scarlet Gospels
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Cenobitical through the time