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monkery Chiefly contemptuous.|ˈmʌŋkərɪ|
Also 6–7 monk(e)rye, -erie, monckery, 7 munk(e)ry.
[f. monk n.1 + -ery. Cf. MDu. monikerie.]
1. The state, condition, or profession of monks (or religious orders in general); monastic life, monasticism.
1536Latimer in Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden) 149 For the upstandynge of his forsayd howsse, and contynuance of the same to many good purpasesse, natt in monkrye. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 349 But Monckery was then a sequestration & departyng from the world, not a profession in the world. 1601F. Godwin Bps. of Eng. 17 For the space of 90 yeeres after, monkerie ceased throughout the realme. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. 34 Oswald one of the greatest setters up of Monkery, begat Oswald the Monke. 1749Wesley Wks. (1872) X. 8 You quote not one line from any Father in the third century, in favour of monkery. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) III. 274 After the introduction of monkery, and its unsocial theory of duties. 1844Stanley Arnold (1858) I. ii. 65 Monkery seems flourishing there in great force. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. iii. §2. 181 The..modern eulogists of monkery.
2. a. A body or community of monks; an establishment of monks; a monastery.
1549Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 118 If he dye in the state of dampnation, he shal rise in the same. Yea, thoughe he haue a whole Monkerye to synge for hym. 1581Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 276/1 The monkreis ar altogidder abolishit, and thair places and abbayis ar for þe maist pairt left waist. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 302 b, Whom the Pope deposed from his kingdome, and thrust into a monckery. 1600Surflet Country Farm ii. liv. 367 In many countries it [Agnus Castus] is seene planted almost in all the monkeries. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. III. Diss. Drama 24 For refusing to submit to the Union of the Spanish and Italian Monkeries into one Congregation. 1740H. Walpole Ep. to T. Ashton 22 To woods and caves she never bade retreat, Nor fix'd in cloister'd monkeries her seat. 1852R. Knox Gt. Artists & Gt. Anat. 168 A long residence..in courts, monkeries, and barracks. 1866Lond. Rev. 28 Apr. 470/2 Brother Ignatius has quite as much right to set up a monkery at Norwich as the Irvingites have to set up a temple in Gordon Square. 1898W. White Jrnls. 244 To Shulbred farm, an old monkery.
b. Monks collectively; also, the monks (of a particular place).
1552Lyndesay Monarche 4669 All Monkrye, ȝe may heir and se, Ar callit Denis, for dignite. 1552Latimer Serm. 5th Sund. Epiph. (1584) 322 Do not as the fondness of the Monkery first did. 1837Landor Pentameron, 5th Day's Interview Wks. 1853 II. 346/2 The clergy and monkery at Certaldo had never been cordial with Messer Giovanni. 1878E. C. G. Murray Russians of To-day 141 It was the custom to recruit the ranks of monkery by..impressing some of the worst-behaved pupils in the four ecclesiastical academies of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiew and Kazan. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. iii. (ed. 2) 214 And of such here is enough to glut the gorge of all the monks in monkery.
3. pl. Monkish practices, appurtenances, or paraphernalia.
1624Darcie Birth of Heresies xv. 62 The principall Monkeries are celebrated on the left side of the Altar. 1873H. E. H. King Disciples, Ugo Bassi v. (1877) 179 It likes me ill To see..thy bright face above the monkeries Of the black habit of the Barnabites. 1878Morley Diderot I. iii. 59 The..confused theological wilderness of sin, asceticism, miracle, and the other monkeries.
4. Conduct or practice characteristic of monks (esp. those of the Middle Ages); a system of life or conduct marked by the alleged faults or abuses of monasticism.
1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. IV. i. (1654) 290 Although those Casuists doe sufficiently doat upon their Monkery. 1695Kennett Par. Antiq. vii. 26 If we renounce all the monkery of this tale. 1846Hare Mission Comf. (1850) 425 This righteousness lies not..in human service, monkery, pilgrimages [etc.]. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. i. i. (1864) I. 57 A second marriage..was revolting to the incipient monkery of the Church. 1872Creighton Hist. Ess. ii. (1902) 61 A reaction against..the monkery and bigotry of the Middle Ages. 1884Tennyson Becket iv. ii, I, that thro' the Pope divorced King Louis, Scorning his monkery.
5. slang. The practice of going on tramp; also, the country districts frequented by tramps.
a1790Potter Dict. Cant (1795), Monkery, the country. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Monkery, the country parts of England are called The Monkery. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 244 He had followed the ‘monkry’ from a child. Ibid. 247 The writer of this account was himself two whole years on the ‘monkry’, before he saw a lodging-house for tramps. Ibid. 248 ‘Well’, said he, ‘I don't know what this 'ere monkry will come to, after a bit’. |