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Cenobitic

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cen·o·bite also coen·o·bite  (sn-bt, sn-)
n.
A member of a convent or other religious community.
[Middle English, from Late Latin coenobta, from coenobium, convent, from Greek koinobion, from koinobios, living in community : koinos, common; see kom in Indo-European roots + bios, life; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.]
ceno·bitic (-btk), ceno·biti·cal adj.
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Adj.1.cenobitic - of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living
cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical
eremitic, eremitical - of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living; "eremitic austerities"


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Later apologists for cenobitic living also recognized a parallel between the polis and the monastic community.
Why is the city so important for Christian theology? by Ward, Graham / Cross Currents
It is in this age, from the late eleventh century on, that we get not only the vast network of Cluniac houses, Cistercian reforms, and attempts to combine the eremetic and cenobitic life (for example, the Camaldolese and the Carthusians), but also dual monastic houses of men and women, as well as various other religious orders which had their moment in history.
Western Monasticism: A History of the Monastic Movement in the Latin ... by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
The accuracy with which the statutes, the serekh, are formulated does not allow any doubt that its members understood themselves to be anything other than members of an association, not of a cenobitic sect (if this social form can be determined at all).
Matthew 18:15-17: conflict, confrontation, and conflict resolution in ... by Duling, Dennis C. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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