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Definition of Coenobitical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coenobitical

Literary usage of Coenobitical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period by John Mitchell Kemble (1849)
"... introduced a coenobitical mode of life in the cathedral of his archdiocese. Long before this time the great majority of our churches had been founded ..."

2. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1889)
"For a time, however, the bishops and their assistant priests led coenobitical or monastic lives ; but not according to the strict rule of St. Benedict. ..."

3. The Chinese by John Francis Davis (1851)
"Chaitya properly means a temple of Budha, and vihar an abode of his coenobitical followers. In the open square in the midst of every vihar is placed a ..."

4. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1874)
"... those at least of the clergy who were not bound to a coenobitical order did contract marriage, and openly avow the families which were its issue. ..."

5. Christian Schools and Scholars: Or, Sketches of Education from the Christian by Augusta Theodosia Drane (1867)
"... and there giving themselves up to prayer and the study of the Scriptures, laid the first foundations of the coenobitical or monastic life. ..."

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