(n.) A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.
Example Sentences:
(1) Given the unusual grandeur of the Buddhist temples and palaces in the settlement, Mes Aynak might once have been a theocracy like Tibet, with the monks exploiting the copper reserves as a source of power and profit, not unlike the Cistercian monks who dominated the pre-industrial economy in many parts of medieval France and England.
(2) The grand prix prize – effectively the runner-up – went to Xavier Beauvois' Of Men and Gods, his surprisingly gripping dramatisation of a true story: the 1996 deaths of French Cistercian monks kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
(3) In the 14th century, the site was a grange, or satellite farm – the Vale of Glamorgan is famously rich farmland – attached to the Cistercian abbey in Neath.
(4) Wensleydale is the land of cheese and specifically French cheese, brought to us by Cistercian monks from Roquefort whose great abbey at Jervaulx is one of Yorkshire's most beautiful ruins.
(5) The present Dutch Reformed Church building in Aduard (near Groningen) is the only remnant of a large Cistercian monastery founded on June 5, 1192.
(6) The island is owned and run by Cistercian monks who produce – and sell – their own chocolate, ice-cream, shortbread, yoghurt and perfumes.
(7) Another strong contender premiered today was Xavier Beauvois's Of Men and Gods, which tells the true story of seven Cistercian monks kidnapped and murdered in Algeria in 1996.
(8) The area around the bog is also the suspected burial ground of Joe Lynskey, a former Irish Cistercian monk whom the IRA also accused of being a British agent in 1972.
(9) It now has a serious rival in Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men , based on a true-life case from 1996, in which seven French Cistercian monks from a monastery in Algeria were kidnapped and murdered.
(10) In a more touristy part of the country, Follina's fabulous Romanesque abbey would be crowded out with coach parties, but here you can wander round the 12th-century Cistercian church and cloisters relatively undisturbed, and then head back into the town centre for lunch at either the gourmet – and expensive – Relais dell'Abbazia, or a local favourite, Ristorante al Caminetto, where a hearty set lunch will only set you back €12.
Monastic
Definition:
(n.) A monk.
(a.) Alt. of Monastical
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, chromosomes do not even assemble kinetochore microtubules in the absence of a spindle pole, and kinetochore microtubules form only on kinetochores facing the pole when a monaster is present.
(2) The tiny room, furnished with a battered old desk and greasy-looking mattress, resembles a monastic cell.
(3) What others say “The most gifted woman now writing in English.” Philip Roth What she says “Writing is a monastic activity.
(4) But his proudest moment came in October, 1980 when he led the bishops in Rome for the Synod to Subiaco, where St Benedict began his monastic life.
(5) A sample population was selected randomly from a rural monastic settlement in southern India.
(6) Later, the centrosome becomes more distinct and organizes a radial microtubule shell, and eventually a compact centrosome at the egg center organizes a monaster.
(7) These observations demonstrate that chromosomes in a mitotic cytoplasm cannot organize a bipolar spindle in the absence of a spindle pole or even in the presence of a monaster.
(8) The degree of development attainable after three hours was dependent on the pH, with spirals forming at the threshold level of pH 7.0, monasters at pH 7.5, and at pH 8.5 cells formed cytasters, multipolar spindles and even completed multipolar divisions.
(9) "The reason Époisses and stuff like that exists is because of monastic traditions where the cheese was handled by people who weren't very sanitary," he says.
(10) By choosing Benedict, the previous pope signalled continuity with Benedict XV, who steered the Vatican through the first world war, and also with the original Saint Benedict who founded the Benedictine monastic order and is considered a pioneer of European education.
(11) For generations of children, the Vikings have been both wild savages (thanks to Anglo Saxon monastic chroniclers, and Horrible Histories) and emblematic of mythical forces, thanks to Tolkien and Pullman.
(12) By contrast, with taxol the number of non-kinetochore microtubules increased and the astral ejection force became stronger as shown by the finding that the chromosomes moved away from the pole to the periphery of the monaster.
(13) In some eggs a centrally localized monaster with chromosomes in sphere-like arrangement was formed in others a monopolar mitotic figure pushed the chromosomes in bowl-like arrangements to the most vegetal cortex.
(14) His monastic silence about the case means that, unusually for a retired politician, he took his secrets to the grave, and we might never know what he really made of the woman with whom he will be forever associated.
(15) He relished the privacy he was afforded here in an almost monastic way, but he was also a great party giver and host.
(16) The whole of higher education is stuck in a monastic time-warp.
(17) Moreover, arms severed from chromosomes at the periphery of the taxol monaster failed to move further away from the aster's center.
(18) Her habit is a long, paint-splattered shift; her monastic cell is her studio, where there are bare floorboards and almost no furniture.
(19) These monasters were subsequently observed to develop into bipolar M1 spindles and proceed through meiosis.
(20) Newsdesks across Britain raced to dispatch reporters to the City to watch the drama as, umm, traders stared nervously at electronic screens in monastic quiet: Rupert Neate at IG Photograph: Guardian The day turned into a rout, with over £43bn wiped off the FTSE 100.