How To Use cenobite In A Sentence
- A cenobite is usually a monk in a monastery, as opposed to an anchorite, who is a monk living alone (also called an ‘eremite’ or ‘hermit’).
- But the Cenobites remain delightfully eerie (and sexy) creations, as does the "Lemarchand configuration. Sometimes you sulk, sometimes you burn...
- At the same time there were many clerics who did live in common, e.g. the cenobites, and the term canon was applied to them as early as the fourth century; but it must not be inferred from this fact that the office of canon has its origin in those who followed the cenobitical Rule of St. Augustine (see The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- No, his real error had been the naive belief that his definition of pleasure significantly overlapped with that of the Cenobites. THE HELLBOUND HEART
- In the ninth century every diocese (presumably the cenobites of every diocese) or district formed a sort of federation under the presidency of a hegumenos known as the exarch or archimandrite. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI