monastics

he drew up a body of monastic observances.

she set her things round the monastic student bedroom.

His apartment was described in terms that included monastic and Spartan.

The monastic university predates the University of Oxford and Europe's oldest university, Bologna, by more than 500 years.

I entered the captain's stateroom. It had an austere, almost monastic appearance. An iron bedstead, a worktable, some washstand fixtures.

Ekido broke monastic law by mentally " clinging to" the woman.

The whole monastic portion was excavated.

The monastic life is poor and simple.

Adorned with thorns and emitting ethereal light, it became an insignia of monastic love.

In the same year, the Benedictine order, the first of the great monastic orders, was founded.

Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.

According to monastic law, monks were not supposed to go near women, let alone touch a beautiful stranger.