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How To Use monastic In A Sentence

• The body was washed and prepared for burial by the women of the family (or by the monastic infirmarer, in the case of a monk or nun), and either shrouded or placed in a coffin.
• What was supposed to be a sequestered monastic retreat became a hive of modern American productive activity.
• The Catechetical School of Alexandria was originated in Egypt. Egypt is the birthplace of Christian monasticism, also has experienced in the Christianity history the most serious persecution.
• Because of this the martial disciplines are linked with a fixed set up of ritualistic procedures and are often performed within a monastic and rigid code of conduct.
• She mentally reviewed his no longer youthful figure, his monastic face, black-haired and large-nosed, with eyes full of expression, his curly mouth, at once judgmatic and benevolent. Flowering Wilderness
• Early teaching methods were modelled on the monastic system or based on trade guilds, with no specific forms of architecture.
• The theme of the workshop will be study of Gregorian chant neums and stylistic performance technique as applied to the repertoire of the monastic office (psalmody, antiphons, responsories, etc.). More Gregorian Chant - Italia!
• Description of the late erected monastical Place called the Arminian The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
• With regard to marriage Luther pursues the same idea: The marital relationship between a man and a woman is true chastity and of higher value than monastic asceticism.
• Therefore, the monastic reforms should be regarded at least as much in the light of co-operation as of combat between king and aristocracy.