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Definition of Monastic order

1. Noun. A group of person living under a religious rule. "The order of Saint Benedict"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monastic Order

Literary usage of Monastic order

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

1. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"HE REMAINS ALWAYS A MONK, and renders the most signal services to the monastic order: he confirms the rule of St. Benedict at the Council of Rome, ..."

2. 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)
"Previously the word, as used in the phrase "the monastic order "had denoted the mode of life common to every monastery. In the "Carta Caritatis" it is used ..."

3. The History of Civilization: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the French by Guizot (François) (1846)
"The barbaric church; development of the separating principle of the two powers ; the monastic order— ..."

4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The colour of mourning in Egypt and in Burmah, where also it is the colour of the monastic order. In Brittany, widow»* caps among the ..."

5. The History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Containing an Account by John Lingard (1845)
"... AND HIS WORKS—MARRIED CLERGY SECULAR CANONS EXTINCTION OF THE monastic order. IN the preceding chapters we have observed the introduction and diffusion ..."

6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"... or ORDER OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL, a monastic order probably founded as an association of hermits on Mount Carmel by Berthold, Count of Limoges, ..."

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