Monk belonging to a Western Catholic religious order.
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Examples for "monk "
1 The monk of Wittenberg had matched the proudest monarch in the world.
2 I need to, I have to, I'll ask... The monk 's voice wavered.
3 The monk recoiled a step and looked at the Jew in surprise.
4 He cut neatly in and separated the flower girl from the monk .
5 The monk rose to go; the Prior seemed to wake to recollection.
1 This was true even though an education by Catholic monks offered alternative possibilities.
2 LeFever purchased its original perfumery from an order of Catholic monks in 1666.
3 So you are going to refuse Peter as a son-in-law, because he-ah-he's not a Catholic monk .
4 I need not add that the Roman rabble, bettering the instruction of Catholic monks , spurned them, reviled them, and robbed them.
5 These statements are all well authenticated in many legends that are among the most trustworthy legends the good old Catholic monks preserve.
1 I was bred amongst the Cistercian monks at Beaulieu Abbey.
2 In the thirteenth century the Cistercian monk , Caesarius of Heisterbach, popularized the doctrine in central Europe.
3 The problem is that a whiff of saintliness envelops the Cistercian monks right from the start.
4 He went there in the company of a Cistercian monk and asked to see the relics.
5 The community of the Abbey were Cistercian monks , who soon attained great celebrity, and acquired extensive possessions.
1 That's funny, because my hairdresser knew some Trappist monks with better haircuts.
2 One is as free in one's complete isolation as a Trappist monk .
3 And if you are a Trappist monk , why do you talk at all?
4 Semisoft; mellow; tangy Port-Salut made by Trappist monks in Savoy.
5 The Trappist monks at the Tre Fontane are trying it, and dying by scores.
1 Attempts to substitute Cluniac monks for canons roused the opposition of the whole body of secular clergy.
2 The fourth abbot refused the Papacy; but Gregory VII, Urban II, and Pascal II were all Cluniac monks .
1 The Hieronymites in the monastery are pious monks.
1 Here the Benedictine monks had a Priory in the time of Henry III.
2 Benedictine monks came to Bamberg in 1008, and began brewing beer shortly afterward.
3 Francis Aidan Gasquet, a Benedictine monk , in his valuable work on Henry VIII.
4 A Benedictine monk from Glenstal Abbey believes tarot cards have much to offer.
5 A society of Benedictine monks was lodged in St. James's Palace.
1 Then one vowed aloud to turn Carthusian monk , if St. Thomas would save him.
2 We dined like a lot of Carthusian monks .
3 Aug. 18-Americanvolunteer corps raised in Paris; severe military law enforced; Carthusian monks , who were expelled, return to fight.
4 Describes appearance of the bottles & tells something about the Carthusian monks who were expelled from France in 1903.
5 Yesterday I was a shepherd of Dauphin'e; to-day an Alpine savage; to-morrow a Carthusian monk ; and Friday a Swiss Calvinist.
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Translations for latin catholic monk