What's the difference between monastic and monasticism?

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.

Monasticism


Definition:

  • (n.) The monastic life, system, or condition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a taste of off-grid hippy monasticism inspired by his time at Taliesin West, where each student had to build their own shelter in the desert (a tradition that continues there today), and an embodiment of his underlying motive to “frugalise the frenzied consumerist juggernaut”.
  • (2) Shielded from Europe, Copts developed distinctive customs such as fasting, monasticism and the usage of liturgical Coptic, derived from the Pharaonic language of ancient Egypt.
  • (3) A preoccupation with time is central to Western culture and is traceable to the social context--thirteenth-century monasticism--in which the clock was first invented.
  • (4) It left me with a sense that people need to be able to put their case.” Rose studied history – the Crusades and Anglo-Saxon monasticism – at Oxford, graduating with a first-class degree.
  • (5) Bishop Angaelos describes the evening as "surreal", though it is unclear whether this surreality comes from today's news, or from his sandy surroundings, which Angaelos claims to be the birthplace of monasticism.

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