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Meanings of monastical in English
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.
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Examples for "monastic"
Examples for "monastic"
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.
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.
1
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.
Usage of monastical in English
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?
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Nearer, their pointed hoods made them monastical as a procession stealing from a range of cells to chant a midnight mass.
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* The Ancient Rites and Monuments of the Monastical and Cathedral Church of Durham, collected out of ancient manuscripts about the time of the Suppression.
Frequent collocations
Monastical through the time