Associations to the word «Monastic»

Wiktionary

MONASTIC, adjective. Of or relating to monasteries or monks.
MONASTIC, noun. A person with monastic ways; a monk.

Dictionary definition

MONASTIC, noun. A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work.
MONASTIC, adjective. Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope