单词 | monastical |
释义 | monasticaladj. Now rare. Designating, relating to, or characteristic of the monastic life or a person who lives such a life; monastic. In early use: spec. †solitary, eremitic (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [adjective] monklyOE monastical1402 monasterialc1443 claustralc1449 cloistrosec1449 monkish1536 monastic1563 abbey-like1570 cloisterly1570 cloistered1581 cloistral1606 monachal1607 monasterical1651 monial1656 1402 Reply Friar Daw Topias in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 65 The thridde degree..the which..kepen in cloistris..clepe we monasticale. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 327 The..thridde secte..usede allemoste in alle thynges a life monasticalle. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xi These monasticall persones..toke on them to write..the noble actes..of kynges and princes. 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 51 A monasticall liuer..hath no partes of time for such young childish studies. c1610–15 Life St. Withburge in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 79 Her monasterie was at Derham, which she herself built, and in it receiued her monasticall weede. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 53 Their liking of doltish and monasticall Schoolemen daily increast. 1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) 131 One of the first Founders of the Monastical Orders. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness 61 [transl. of papal document] We will, that monastical discipline be there observed at all times. 1812 R. Southey Omniana II. ccxliii. 272 Not by a novitial fervour of devotion, but by long probation in a monastical kind of life. 1859 C. Barker Devel. Associative Princ. i. 9 The gradual departure from primitive monastical austerity. 1906 A. Bierce Cynic's Word Bk. 53 O Cœnobite, o cœnobite, Monastical gregarian, You differ from the anchorite, That solitudinarian. 1994 Shakespeare Q. 45 456 When Bertram annuls the marriage.., she takes the desexualisation one step further, embracing a monastical chastity by reconfiguring herself as a penitent whore. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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