What's the difference between monastic and monistic?

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.

Monistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This essay eschews reductionist, dualist, and identity-theory attempts to resolve this problem, and offers an ontology--"monistic dual-aspect interactionism"--for the biopsychosocial model.
  • (2) Monistate Cream, in this study, was found to be a safe and effective drug in treating both pregnant and nonpregnant patients with confirmed candidiasis.
  • (3) He viewed man as a physiologist, as a materialist, and as a monist.
  • (4) This article briefly recapitulates the major perspectives on the problem, examines the relationship of meaning and mind to psychosocial and biological explanatory programs and to materiality, and promotes a monistic dual aspect interactionist approach to mind and body in health and illness.
  • (5) According to S. Freud's theories about the individual uniqueness and to G. A. Kelly's personal construct theory, the authors try to determine a monistic concept of the human being also from the clinical standpoint.
  • (6) Each of these possibilities offers conceptual advantages and disadvantages, so that it is difficult to adopt a monistic stance.
  • (7) The author discusses Freudian dualistic conception of drives and contends that it can be reduced to a monistic one, on the basis of modern conceptions of Biology, and after scanning the original writings of Freud on the subject of drive and instinct.
  • (8) The relationship between reading comprehension, listening comprehension, and two indicators of intelligence (verbal reasoning, speed of information processing) is analyzed on the basis of a hierarchical monistic model.
  • (9) Here, the old struggle between dualists and monists has awakened to new life.
  • (10) From Thorndike's connectionism to Pavlov's classical conditioning, Hull's monistic theory, Mowrer's two-factor theory, and Skinner's operant theory, there have been several divergent accounts of the conditions that produce imitation and the conditions under which imitation itself may facilitate language acquisition.
  • (11) The establishment of a bio-psycho-social (monistic) approach to all problems of human health and disease is regarded as an essential prerequisite for the improvement of medical care.
  • (12) This paper describes in detail two approaches to that process: monistic and pluralistic.
  • (13) The delay-and-antedating hypothesis does not provide a formally definitive contradiction of monist-identity theory (of the mind-brain relationship).
  • (14) Instead of further investigation on the problem of "unity", or on monistic or dualistic views of the mind-body problem, we propose a new theoretical approach.
  • (15) This report reevaluates Kohut's monistic interpretive methodology: (1) The principal features of Kohut's interpretive method are reviewed and evaluated.
  • (16) He differentiates between monistic theories, such as Immanuel Kant's, which rely on a single moral principle, and pluralistic theories, such as that of W.D.
  • (17) He believes the monistic psychobiological theory to be the most pertinent at present.

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