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monastic

[muh-nas-tik] / məˈnæs tɪk /
ADJECTIVE
with communal life
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When Kristen Hartke wrote about soup master Brother Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette and we published his Monastic Garlic Soup, I slurped it up with enthusiasm.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2022

Later that decade, Alice Coltrane recorded her solo debut record, “A Monastic Trio,” in a studio in the basement.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2018

He is the author of “The Father and the Son: My Father’s Journey Into the Monastic Life,” which tells the story of his father, a former civil servant who entered a monastery.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2018

Monastic life varies from hard to hardest, and fewer than half of all novices last out the five-to seven-year training period before final vows are taken.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life, in the Anglo-Saxon Dialect of the 13th Century.

From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various




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