All 3 Uses of
monastery
in
Arrowsmith
- In novels, these truth-seekers quested the "secret of life" in laboratories which did not seem to be provided with Bunsen flames or reagents; or they went, at great expense and much discomfort from hot trains and undesirable snakes, to Himalayan monasteries, to learn from unaseptic sages that the Mind can do all sorts of edifying things if one will but spend thirty or forty years in eating rice and gazing on one's navel.†
Chpt 25
- Then we'll need a new Director of McGurk who will work with us and help bring Science out of the monastery to serve Mankind.†
Chpt 40 *
- "It's kind of a mis'able return to monasteries," grumbled Terry, "except that we're not trying to solve anything for anybody but our own fool selves.†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(monastery) the residence of a religious community