Monastic: alternatives and connections

Not worldly; spiritual; holy.

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Not worldly; spiritual; holy.

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A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a…

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A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.

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A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years…

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A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Ext…

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Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religi…

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A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a…

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A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a…

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of Cloister

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Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.

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Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic.

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Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.

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A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.