Monastary

Quick meaning: Monastary is a noun meaning Erroneous spelling of monastery, mainly occurring before 17th century, occasionally cropping up in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Meaning

Erroneous spelling of monastery, mainly occurring before 17th century, occasionally cropping up in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Example Sentences

According to this permanent right, no cathedral nor parish church, no monastary nor hospital can be founded in America, without express and direct permission from the king.

1697 The Most Pleasing and Delightful HISTORY of Reynard the Fox, and Reynardine his Son. with The Morals to each Chapter, Explaining what appears Doubtful or Allegorical. LONDON: Printed by W. Onley M DC XC VII ...being altogether disguised he hoped to get into the Monastary again, from whence you have heard he fled.

1824 David Mc'Nicoll. Pro & Con: or, the claims of the stage. p. If we are to be continually weeping and praying, we had better at once retire to a monastary or cave, shut out the light of heaven, count our beads, and finally bid adieu to all communication with our fellow-men. ... Contemptuously adverting to monastaries and beads, in personal depreciation of a respectable communion, which is not likely to be cured of its errors by any such means.

Word Forms

• monastaries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include monastery, monasteries, monasterial, monastic, monasticism, cloister.

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