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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK] monk: cf. F.

monastique

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Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc.,

as,

monastic

institutions or rules

Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse.

“A life monastic.”

Denham.

monastical ‎(comparative more monastical, superlative most monastical)