monasticizev.
/məˈnastᵻsʌɪz/, U.S. /məˈnæstəˌsaɪz/ transitive. To make monastic in character; to convert to monasticism.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > monastic profession > [verb (transitive)] > admit to
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1825 Monthly Mag. Apr. 232/2 While..the slang..continues to jargonize our language and vulgarize our manners, you must either monasticize our youth entirely..or..blackguardism and brutalization will find their way among them.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vi. 414 These institutions [sc. convents], which were hereafter to send forth S. Columban to convert and monasticise the German forests, were..in their..initiatory state.
1893 Edinb. Rev. July 256 A married clergy monasticised in vain by Dunstan.
1967 Speculum 42 189 Perhaps the dynamic of dissent was not the Great Reform Movement but the effort to monasticize the entire church.
1988 G. Guiver Company of Voices xiv. 92 Bishops outside the Roman liturgical sphere were already making attempts to monasticize the people's office.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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