monachal

[ mon-uh-kuhl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to monks or their life; monastic.

monachal

/ ˈmɒnəkəl /

adjective

1. a less common word for monastic

Derived Forms

• ˈmonachist, adjectivenoun
• ˈmonachism, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of monachal¹

1580–90; < Late Latin monachālis, equivalent to Late Latin monach ( us ) monk + -ālis -al ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of monachal¹

C16: from Old French, from Church Latin monachālis, from monachus monk

Example Sentences

There is a striking analogy between the experiences of Luther under the monachal r�gime and those of Saul of Tarsus under the discipline of the Pharisaic Law.

From Project Gutenberg

St. Bernard, who, by the assumption of the vow of absolute poverty, renounced a considerable private inheritance, and who subsequently scorned the proffers of lucrative dignities, could, nevertheless, by means of his monachal power and opulence erect ten monasteries, make nobles and Popes tremble at his authority, and even kings submit to his dictation.

From Project Gutenberg

From these considerations, and from the fact that the monachal orders form an elementary part of the constitution of the Catholic Church, we have inferred that she is rather a political than a religious institution; and that while politics form her nature and principles, religion is assumed as an ornament and disguise.

From Project Gutenberg

This permission, so far as the concession of the infallible father is authority, places the antiquity of the monachal order remotely beyond that of Christianity; acknowledges its institution to have originated from Judaism; and grants that its rules and principles were adopted by ancient Pagan fraternities.

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The God Fo, born in Cashmere B. C. 1027, the author of the Braminical religion, strenuously advocated monachal institutions.

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