All 4 Uses
monk
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The Once and Future King
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- There were monks and friars and abbots of every description, standing about in sandals among the knights, whose armour flashed by candlelight There was even a Franciscan bishop, wearing grey, with a red hat.†
Book 2monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- In the abbeys all the monks were illuminating the initial letters of their manuscripts with such a riot of invention that it was impossible to read the first page at all.†
Book 3 *
- One of them who was called Baptista Porta seems to have invented, the cinema—though he sensibly decided not to develop it As for aircraft, in the tenth century a monk called Aethel-maer was experimenting with them, and might have succeeded but for an accident in adjusting of his tail unit He crashed "quod'—says William of Malmesbury—"caudam in posteriori parte oblitus fuerat adaptare."†
Book 4
- There, far away in the environs of a monastery, you might have seen a procession of angry monks making a barefoot march round their foundation—but they might have been walking against the sun, in malediction, because they had fallen out with the abbot.†
Book 4monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Definitions:
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(1)
(monk) a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)