monachal

American  

[mon-uh-kuhl] / ˈmɒn ə kəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to monks or their life; monastic.

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monachal British  

/ ˈmɒnəkəl /

adjective

1. a less common word for monastic

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Other Word Forms

• monachism noun
• monachist adjective

Etymology

Origin of monachal

1580–90; < Late Latin monachālis, equivalent to Late Latin monach ( us ) monk + -ālis -al ¹

Example Sentences

There is a striking analogy between the experiences of Luther under the monachal r�gime and those of Saul of Tarsus under the discipline of the Pharisaic Law.

From Project Gutenberg

The monachal vows which we have considered in the foregoing chapters were assumed by all the religious orders prior to the thirteenth century.

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St. Bernard, who, by the assumption of the vow of absolute poverty, renounced a considerable private inheritance, and who subsequently scorned the proffers of lucrative dignities, could, nevertheless, by means of his monachal power and opulence erect ten monasteries, make nobles and Popes tremble at his authority, and even kings submit to his dictation.

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This permission, so far as the concession of the infallible father is authority, places the antiquity of the monachal order remotely beyond that of Christianity; acknowledges its institution to have originated from Judaism; and grants that its rules and principles were adopted by ancient Pagan fraternities.

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The God Fo, born in Cashmere B. C. 1027, the author of the Braminical religion, strenuously advocated monachal institutions.

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