monkish

And I have always despised the monkish obscurity cultivated by certain academics.

This makes you, at turns, desirous of luxury and monkish asceticism, as you strike a balance between the two.

Relying on their spiritual pretensions, the monkish scribes gloried in ignorance and paraded want of grammar as a sign of grace. '

In the exasperated state, especially of the monkish mind, prayers for Becket would easily slide into anathemas against the king.