monastery

[Lat. monasterium, from Gr. mon aster i on =a minister, or monastery, from mon astes dwelling alone, from monazō to be alone; monos alone, single; Fr. monastère; Ital. monas tero, monasterio; Sp. monasterio. ] Comparative Religions : 1. Ethnic: For details as to the Buddhist and Jain monasteries, see the articles BUDDHIST-ARCHITECTURE, JAIN-ARCHITECTURE, also BUDDHIST and JAINISM. 2. Christian.: The ecclesiastical Latin monaster ium =the home of a religious community of men, was in general use in the Church for several centuries, when it was displaced by convent us =a community (of men or women), bound by rule, and practicing the counsels of perfection. By Roman ecclesiastical writers the word monastery is usually restricted to Benedictine houses, and houses of Orders practicing some modification of the Benedictine rule; as, a Car thus i an monastery , a Cistercian monastery , but a Francis can or a Dominican convent. One of the effects of the Oxford movement in England has been the attempt of Father Ignatius (the Rev. J. L. Lyne) to found a Benedictine mon. astery at Llanthony, near Abergavenny. "There is a monastery two miles off, And there we will abide." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , iii. 4. mô-năstic, a. & s. [Gr. monastikos = living in solitude, from monastès = dwelling alone; Fr. то monarch i a.] 1. The system of government in which the supreme power is in the hands of a single person. "The first, the most ancient, most general, and most approved, was the government of one ruling by just laws, called monarchy." - Raleigh: Hist. World , bk. i., ch. ix., § 2. 2. A state or government in which the supreme power is in the hands of a single person. "Our theory affords a presumption, that the earliest governments were monarchies , because the governments of families and of armies, from which, according to our account, civil government derived its institution, and IMG:content-1342.png:[blocks in formation] Nat. Philosophy, bk. vi., ch. i. 3. A kingdom, an empire. "This small inheritance Content eth me, and's worth a monarchy." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . II ., iv. 10. *4. Supreme power. "There Alexander put them vnder Which wroght of armes many a wonder So that the monarchie lefte With Grekes." Gower. C. A. (Prol.) IMG:content-1343.png:[blocks in formation] (6) Limited monarchy : [LIMITED, mon-ar-da, s. [Named after Nicolas Monardez, a physician of Seville, in the sixteenth century.] Bot .: The typical genus of the menthaceous tribe Monardee. The leaves of Monarda didyma , an American species, are used for tea. [OSWEGO-TEA.] 1. Ord. Lang . Of or belonging to monarchy. 2. Church Hist. Of or belonging to the sect de- Its flowers are a brilliant scarlet. Monarda fistu- scribed under B. B. As substantive: Church Hist . ( pl .): The followers of Praxeas, a celebrated man and confe or who lived at Rome in the second century. He rejected the distinction of three Persons in the Divine E ence, and according to Tertullian ( Liber contra Praxeam ) contended for the monarchy of God. Christ was regarded as the Son of God, to whom the Father so joined himself as to be crucified along with the Son, whence the Monarch i ans were called also Patripa ians (q. v.). IMG:content-1344.png:[blocks in formation]