Definition of Semimonastic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Semimonastic

semimat
semimatt
semimatte
semimembranosus
semimembranosus reflex
semimembranous
semimetal
semimetallic
semimetallicity
semimetals
semimicro
semimild
semiminor
semiminor axis
semimoist
semimonastic (current term)
semimonthlies
semimonthly
semimute
semimutes
semimystical
semimythic
semimythical
semimythological
seminaked

Literary usage of Semimonastic

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

1. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"with grown-up children, who some years before had given up his government and was living a life of semimonastic religious retirement. ..."

2. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"Beg'hards, semimonastic societies of men, originating in the Netherlands, dating from the early thirteenth century, or not very long after similar societies ..."

3. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1918)
"... refuge from the world in which he was as much a stranger as Shelley, in semimonastic seclusion. His greater poetry was published between 1893 and 1897. ..."

4. A History of English Literature by William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett (1918)
"... refuge from the world in which he was as much a stranger as Shelley, in semimonastic seclusion. His greater poetry was published between 1893 and 1897. ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... association of a semimonastic nature which flourished in the transition period between the Middle Ages and the Reformation. ..."

6. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"with grown-up children, who some 'years before had given up his government and was living a life of semimonastic religious retirement. ..."

7. The Prophetic Movement in Israel by Albert Cornelius Knudson (1921)
"They lived together in semimonastic fashion, having their meals in common. Marriage, however, was not forbidden (2 Kings 4. 1-7, 38-41). ..."

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