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词汇 monastic
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Definition of monastic in English:

monastic

adjective məˈnastɪkməˈnæstɪk
  • 1Relating to monks, nuns, or others living under religious vows, or the buildings in which they live.

    修士的;修女的;僧侣的;隐修院的;寺院的

    a monastic order

    修道会。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The religious pillars, of course, are the clergy and monastic orders.
    • It was a memorable visit, and uplifting for both monastic orders.
    • With regard to marriage Luther pursues the same idea: The marital relationship between a man and a woman is true chastity and of higher value than monastic asceticism.
    • It may be wondered if this is the best solution to the situation brought about by the dominance of the monastic tradition in Orthodox worship.
    • It is my understanding that the current debate preserves monastic celibacy within the religious orders, just as it does for the Eastern Church.
    • The church and monastic buildings on Lindisfarne today date from the Norman period when a Benedictine monastery was established on the island.
    • Historically, Psalms have always been sung by believers, beginning in Jewish worship and continuing through that of monastic orders.
    • Some monastic sects, such as the lingayats, wear stone lingams around their necks as a part of their sacred practice.
    • Medieval people believed that the suffering of the dead could be eased by the prayers of the living, and monastic prayers of intercession were valued most highly.
    • There is a lot that Heloise has to say on the subject of religion in her later monastic writings.
    • Yet, there is a fourth form of service to the world that is much more central to the Orthodox monastic vocation: providing spiritual guidance.
    • So we spent a lot of time living there with this specific community of monks, a monastic household.
    • Chastity is the third monastic virtue, the opposite of voluptuousness.
    • The monastic orders were linked to the bureaucratic structure through papal recognition and interlocking networks.
    • Today we'll hear from two Buddhists, who lived a monastic life, and also left it after some years.
    • Most Theravada monks live as part of monastic communities.
    • The akharas' dates of founding range from the sixth to the fourteenth century, though large monastic orders have existed throughout India's long history.
    • Before noon of the same day, that forge was blessed by the monastic priests of nearby Kadavul Temple.
    • Sera is one of the three great Gelug monastic universities where monks do intensive study and training in Buddhist philosophy.
    • I saw how they lived, saw how they dressed, and that influenced in a very strict way the monastic protocols that we later put into action in our own monastic order.
    Synonyms
    cloistered, conventual, cloistral, claustral, canonical, monastical
    rare cenobitic, monachal
    1. 1.1 Resembling or suggestive of monks or their way of life, especially in being austere, solitary, or celibate.
      僧侣般的;隐修生活般的;苦行修士的,简朴的;遁世的;禁欲的
      she set her things round the monastic student bedroom

      她把自己物品散放在简陋的学生宿舍里。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He lives a monastic lifestyle, associates with no one, and has no personal relationships.
      • The Armenian Quarter is a little known part of the city and its stone passages and cloisters give it a secluded, monastic air.
      • This image of a monastic, reclusive author, wilfully at odds with much of modernity, was confirmed by the posthumous appearance of Brown's autobiography.
      • Music is, by implication, a solitary and almost monastic pursuit, one unabashedly privileged over friendship or love.
      • It was a very austere kind of monastic existence.
      • The bedrooms vary from private apartment to monastic simplicity, yet all bear the hallmarks of a considerate host: candles, joss sticks, tea-making facilities and mosquito repellent.
      • Having had a good day of golf and wine with the two Jims and myself, he retired to his room in the monastic student hall of residence.
      Synonyms
      austere, ascetic, simple, solitary, monkish, celibate, quiet, cloistered, sequestered, secluded, reclusive, withdrawn, hermit-like, eremitic, anchoritic, hermitic, contemplative, meditative
noun məˈnastɪkməˈnæstɪk
  • A monk or other follower of a monastic rule.

    修士;修女;僧侣

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Besides the ascesis through spiritual fatherhood, the monastics fulfill their daily spiritual exercise through the more common practices of prayer, fasting, and vigil.
    • Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecution, the monastics testify to the martyrdom of conscience.
    • In Asia monastics were great healers, and incredible people.
    • Like the monastics and mystics at their best, he has a gift for seeing God everywhere.
    • He sent one of his monastics to teach classes all over the nation for nearly a year.
    • While seldom scholars or even clerics, these monastics turned the desert into a city.
    • Thus, monastics are prophets of the second coming not primarily through their words but through their total existence.
    • In the West, however, most Zen practitioners are not monastics.
    • Weber's texts also employ the typology to distinguish the asceticism of medieval monastics from that of Calvinism.
    • Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
    • What does the tradition itself say about regulating the behavior of monastics?
    • It is very helpful for young monastics to be exposed to the influence of dedicated lay practitioners.
    • It is the mix of monastics and lay practitioners that is perhaps the monastery's most innovative and vital component.
    • I didn't tell anyone about this at the time, except for two or three of the Saivite monastics who were with me in Switzerland.
    • For 500 years, most monastics in Europe belonged to the Benedictine religious order.
    • Among the Celtic monastics there was a form of spiritual direction in which the monks and the nuns discussed both their sinfulness and their need to reform.
    • While there are three million Hindu monastics today, most are loosely organized.
    • For the 4th century desert monastics, however, being a zero meant having acquired the virtue of humility.
    • Medieval monastics sought to abstain from enjoying daily life, lest they prefer it to God.
    • There is little direct precedent for this model in Asia, where only monastics engage in serious meditation, and its long-range future remains an open question.
    Synonyms
    monk, cleric, friar, religious, regular, monastic, contemplative

Derivatives

  • monastically

  • adverb məˈnastɪkliməˈnæstək(ə)li
    • The Tigre people have a sacred artistic tradition within Christianity that includes music (directed by monastically trained men) as well as Biblical illumination, scroll making, and icon painting.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The result can be monastically bare, as though he is looking for whatever lies on the other side of asceticism.
      • They locked themselves into the Round House, a monastically inspired stone-built retreat used for similar purposes by another musician in the 1990s.
      • Paring form and materiality down to its monastically rigorous bare bones, this new apartment in Milan is a sensuous synthesis of big spaces and ethereal light.
      • Some rooms are monastically small.
  • monasticism

  • noun məˈnastɪsɪz(ə)mməˈnæstəˌsɪzəm
    • Celtic Christianity in the sixth through tenth centuries was characterized by its extreme asceticism, its love of learning, and its distinctive monasticism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Following closely to this preoccupation with asceticism was monasticism which spread with incredible rapidity.
      • Is monasticism a purer search for God or only a way of life some people need?
      • Benedict is considered the founder of Western monasticism, a man who said prayer comes first and work is then absorbed into prayer and becomes a part of it.
      • Rejected by Luther is the idea that some occupations, such as the priesthood or monasticism, are spiritually superior to others, such as parenting.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'anchoritic'): from late Latin monasticus, from Greek monastikos, from monazein 'live alone'.

Rhymes

bombastic, drastic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, elastic, encomiastic, enthusiastic, fantastic, gymnastic, iconoclastic, mastic, neoplastic, orgastic, orgiastic, periphrastic, plastic, pleonastic, sarcastic, scholastic, scholiastic

Definition of monastic in US English:

monastic

adjectiveməˈnæstɪkməˈnastik
  • 1Relating to monks, nuns, or others living under religious vows, or the buildings in which they live.

    修士的;修女的;僧侣的;隐修院的;寺院的

    a monastic order

    修道会。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The monastic orders were linked to the bureaucratic structure through papal recognition and interlocking networks.
    • It is my understanding that the current debate preserves monastic celibacy within the religious orders, just as it does for the Eastern Church.
    • Before noon of the same day, that forge was blessed by the monastic priests of nearby Kadavul Temple.
    • I saw how they lived, saw how they dressed, and that influenced in a very strict way the monastic protocols that we later put into action in our own monastic order.
    • It was a memorable visit, and uplifting for both monastic orders.
    • Medieval people believed that the suffering of the dead could be eased by the prayers of the living, and monastic prayers of intercession were valued most highly.
    • Some monastic sects, such as the lingayats, wear stone lingams around their necks as a part of their sacred practice.
    • Historically, Psalms have always been sung by believers, beginning in Jewish worship and continuing through that of monastic orders.
    • Sera is one of the three great Gelug monastic universities where monks do intensive study and training in Buddhist philosophy.
    • Today we'll hear from two Buddhists, who lived a monastic life, and also left it after some years.
    • The religious pillars, of course, are the clergy and monastic orders.
    • Most Theravada monks live as part of monastic communities.
    • So we spent a lot of time living there with this specific community of monks, a monastic household.
    • The akharas' dates of founding range from the sixth to the fourteenth century, though large monastic orders have existed throughout India's long history.
    • It may be wondered if this is the best solution to the situation brought about by the dominance of the monastic tradition in Orthodox worship.
    • The church and monastic buildings on Lindisfarne today date from the Norman period when a Benedictine monastery was established on the island.
    • There is a lot that Heloise has to say on the subject of religion in her later monastic writings.
    • Yet, there is a fourth form of service to the world that is much more central to the Orthodox monastic vocation: providing spiritual guidance.
    • Chastity is the third monastic virtue, the opposite of voluptuousness.
    • With regard to marriage Luther pursues the same idea: The marital relationship between a man and a woman is true chastity and of higher value than monastic asceticism.
    Synonyms
    cloistered, conventual, cloistral, claustral, canonical, monastical
    1. 1.1 Resembling or suggestive of monks or their way of life, especially in being austere, solitary, or celibate.
      僧侣般的;隐修生活般的;苦行修士的,简朴的;遁世的;禁欲的
      a monastic student bedroom
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He lives a monastic lifestyle, associates with no one, and has no personal relationships.
      • The Armenian Quarter is a little known part of the city and its stone passages and cloisters give it a secluded, monastic air.
      • The bedrooms vary from private apartment to monastic simplicity, yet all bear the hallmarks of a considerate host: candles, joss sticks, tea-making facilities and mosquito repellent.
      • It was a very austere kind of monastic existence.
      • This image of a monastic, reclusive author, wilfully at odds with much of modernity, was confirmed by the posthumous appearance of Brown's autobiography.
      • Having had a good day of golf and wine with the two Jims and myself, he retired to his room in the monastic student hall of residence.
      • Music is, by implication, a solitary and almost monastic pursuit, one unabashedly privileged over friendship or love.
      Synonyms
      austere, ascetic, simple, solitary, monkish, celibate, quiet, cloistered, sequestered, secluded, reclusive, withdrawn, hermit-like, eremitic, anchoritic, hermitic, contemplative, meditative
nounməˈnæstɪkməˈnastik
  • A monk or other follower of a monastic rule.

    修士;修女;僧侣

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Weber's texts also employ the typology to distinguish the asceticism of medieval monastics from that of Calvinism.
    • Besides the ascesis through spiritual fatherhood, the monastics fulfill their daily spiritual exercise through the more common practices of prayer, fasting, and vigil.
    • While there are three million Hindu monastics today, most are loosely organized.
    • It is the mix of monastics and lay practitioners that is perhaps the monastery's most innovative and vital component.
    • Thus, monastics are prophets of the second coming not primarily through their words but through their total existence.
    • In Asia monastics were great healers, and incredible people.
    • Like the monastics and mystics at their best, he has a gift for seeing God everywhere.
    • There is little direct precedent for this model in Asia, where only monastics engage in serious meditation, and its long-range future remains an open question.
    • Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
    • Medieval monastics sought to abstain from enjoying daily life, lest they prefer it to God.
    • What does the tradition itself say about regulating the behavior of monastics?
    • It is very helpful for young monastics to be exposed to the influence of dedicated lay practitioners.
    • He sent one of his monastics to teach classes all over the nation for nearly a year.
    • While seldom scholars or even clerics, these monastics turned the desert into a city.
    • In the West, however, most Zen practitioners are not monastics.
    • Through daily ascesis, even in periods of no external persecution, the monastics testify to the martyrdom of conscience.
    • For the 4th century desert monastics, however, being a zero meant having acquired the virtue of humility.
    • Among the Celtic monastics there was a form of spiritual direction in which the monks and the nuns discussed both their sinfulness and their need to reform.
    • I didn't tell anyone about this at the time, except for two or three of the Saivite monastics who were with me in Switzerland.
    • For 500 years, most monastics in Europe belonged to the Benedictine religious order.
    Synonyms
    monk, cleric, friar, religious, regular, monastic, contemplative

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘anchoritic’): from late Latin monasticus, from Greek monastikos, from monazein ‘live alone’.

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