(n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(3) It stands 25km north of Damascus, near the ancient Saydnaya monastery where Christians and Muslims have prayed together for centuries.
(4) The Ioannou family were originally fishermen, and still bring in the catch and cook it fresh to order • +30 22270 31487 Don't miss Just to the south of Limni is the monastery of Ayiou Nikolaou Galataki, set on the wooded slopes of the mountains overlooking the mainland.
(5) Neither of them - both now teenagers - lives in Tashilumpo monastery.
(6) In May, masked men abducted Syrian priest Jacques Mourad, from the Syriac Catholic Mar Elian monastery in Qaryatain, near the Isis-held ancient city of Palmyra.
(7) The latter rivalry may play an important role in social relations within and among Buddhist monasteries.
(8) This picturebook-romantic Romanesque monastery with a handful of houses attached is tucked between the faded pinks and yellows of laid-back seaside resort Camogli and chi chi Portofino, with its superyachts and Dior boutiques selling €1,000 sandals.
(9) I walked down into town from the pagoda and was enveloped in a happy crowd outside a monastery celebrating the full moon.
(10) Founded in 1088, the monastery’s fortress-like walls dominate the island’s skyline.
(11) SuperSub Monastery art, southern Serbia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frescoes at Zica Monastery, near Kraljevo.
(12) In recent years, the maharishi, who broadcasts on a private satellite channel from a converted monastery in Vlodrop, in Holland, has proffered opinions on everything from crime to the Israel-Palestine conflict to how countries can best foster military defence.
(13) Gayed entered the El Suryan (St Mary) monastery in Egypt's remote western desert in July 1954.
(14) A vivid account of the Viking raid in 793, regarded as the first major attack in a century of terror for vulnerable monasteries and settlements along the coast, appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
(15) Palmyra – what the world has lost Read more They include “all the Christian churches in Mosul, most of the monasteries – some of the earliest Christian sites in the world”.
(16) Tisannyi monastery has caught fire "multiple times since 2009", it said.
(17) "For several years the authorities have been piling pressure on the monastery – and on monasteries in general.
(18) The International Campaign for Tibet said hundreds of Tibetans gathered at the monastery in Aba county, also known as Ngaba, believing the authorities were preparing to forcibly remove the monks for "patriotic education".
(19) Free Tibet said Choepel had been expelled from the monastery after Phuntsog's death.
(20) Once they landed, the warriors could forage with ruthless efficiency, as many a coastal community or wealthy monastery discovered.
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.