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Definition of Cenobitical

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cenobitical

Literary usage of Cenobitical

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He introduced into Western monasticism a system hitherto unknown, and attempted a blending of the cenobitical life of the West with the eremitical life of ..."

2. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1815)
"... discipline of these cenobitical institutions, had crept in during the lapse of ages, and the temptations of pride and luxury, there can be uo doubt; ..."

3. The Apostles by Ernest Renan (1875)
"Very soon rules were enacted, and established a certain analogy between this primitive church and the cenobitical establishments wirb which Christianity ..."

4. London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale (1815)
"... many departures from the strict moral and religious discipline of these cenobitical institutions, had crept in during the lapse of ages, ..."

5. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"This " cenobitical symposium" concluded, they again returned to the college yard, ... cenobitical ..."

6. The Origins of Christianity by Ernest Renan (1866)
"CHAPTER V. FIEST CHURCH OF JERUSALEM ; ITS CHARACTER cenobitical. THE custom of living in a community professing one identical faith, and indulging in one ..."

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