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coenobite
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun coenobite has 1 sense
- coenobite(n = noun.person) cenobite - a member of a religious order living in common; Array is a kind of religious
Derived forms adjective coenobitic1, adjective coenobitical1
CIDE DICTIONARY
coenobite, n.
a member of a religious order living in common. Same as Cenobite. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
coenobite, n. (US cenobite) a member of a monastic community.
Derivative
coenobitic adj. coenobitical adj.
Etymology
OF cenobite or eccl.L coenobita f. LL coenobium f. Gk koinobion convent f. koinos common + bios life
DEVIL DICTIONARY
coenobite
n. A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness; and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.
O Coenobite, O coenobite,
Monastical gregarian,
You differ from the anchorite,
That solitudinarian:
With vollied prayers you wound Old Nick;
With dropping shots he makes him sick.
Quincy Giles
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