mendicant monk

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• Mendicant — Begging Sōtō monk …   Wikipedia

• Monk — • A member of a community of men, leading a more or less contemplative life apart from the world, under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, according to a rule characteristic of the particular order to which he belongs Catholic… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• monk — (n.) O.E. munuc monk (used also of women), from P.Gmc. *muniko (Cf. O.Fris. munek, M.Du. monic, O.H.G. munih, Ger. Mönch), an early borrowing from V.L. *monicus (source of Fr. moine, Sp. monje, It. monaco), from L.L. monachus monk, originally …   Etymology dictionary

• Monk — For other uses, see Monk (disambiguation). St. Anthony the Great, considered the Father of Christian Monasticism A monk (from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, single, solitary [1]) is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or… …   Wikipedia

• monk — friar, monk A friar is a member of a mendicant (i.e. living on alms) or originally mendicant religious order of men, especially the Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicans, and Franciscans, who live among the people and do good works. A monk can… …   Modern English usage

• monk — /mungk/, n. 1. (in Christianity) a man who has withdrawn from the world for religious reasons, esp. as a member of an order of cenobites living according to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. 2. (in any… …   Universalium

• mendicant — Synonyms and related words: Albigensian, Catharist, Franciscan, Sabbatarian, Trappist, Waldensian, abbacomes, abbot, abstainer, abstinent, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, beadsman, beggar, beggared, beggarly, begging, bereaved, bereft,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• monk — Synonyms and related words: Cape polecat, abbacomes, abbot, ape, ascetic, bar, beadsman, bear, brother, caloyer, cavy, celibataire, celibate, cenobite, chimp, chimpanzee, coenobite, conventual, conventual prior, coon, ferret, foumart, friar,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• monk — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. friar, brother, cleric; pilgrim, palmer, mendicant; ascetic, hermit, anchorite, cenobite, eremite, recluse, solitary; abbot, prior, father, abbé. See clergy, celibacy, asceticism. II (Roget s IV) n.… …   English dictionary for students

• monk — noun the monks teach a class in organic gardening Syn: brother, religious, cenobite, contemplative, mendicant; friar; abbot, prior; novice, oblate, postulant; lama, marabout …   Thesaurus of popular words

• monk — n 1. cenobite, conventual, monastic, celibate, religious, contemplative, Archaic. cloisterer; abbot, abbé, prior, brother, lay brother, Tibetan Buddhism. lama, Islam. fakir, Islam. marabout, Eastern Ch. caloyer, Hinduism. ashramite, Hinduism.… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder