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Definition of Cenobites
1. cenobite [n] - See also: cenobite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cenobites
Literary usage of Cenobites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of Monks and Monastries by Alfred Wesley Wishart (1902)
"The cenobites of the East We cannot linger with these hermits. I pass now to the
cenobitic* life. We go back in years and return to Egypt. ..."
2. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Ramsay Weston Rhipps (1892)
"Bonaparte's departure for Suez—Crossing the desert—Passage of the Red Sea—The
fountain of Moses—The cenobites of Mount Sinai—Danger in recrossing the Bed ..."
3. The Fathers of the Desert by Henry Ruffner (1850)
"BASIL AND HIS cenobites. AFTER Antony in Egypt and Hilarion in Palestine began
to collect societies of monks, monachism spread like wild-fire among all the ..."
4. Thaïs: An Opera in Three Acts and Seven Scenes by Jules Massenet, Louis Gallet, Anatole France (1907)
"Twelve cenobites and old Palemon are seated at a long table. ... THE cenobites (almost
in a murmur) That the black demons of the abyss —leave clear our path ..."
5. History of Ancient Civilization by Charles Seignobos, James Alton James (1906)
"The cenobites—The solitaries who lived in the same desert drew together and
adopted a common life for the practice of their austerities. ..."
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