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worldly, ( ; ); The pagan conceptions of virtue were merely
materialistic, temporal, and self-regarding. — Christianity and Ethics A
Handbook of Christian Ethics;
• (temporize)- to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting,
( ; ); The time to temporize, theorize, be
conservative and easy-going has gone by. — Our Vanishing Wild Life Its
Extermination and Preservation;
convent : cloister : refectory : monastery > monastic
• (convent)- a community, especially of nuns, bound by vows to a religious
life under a superior, ; The parlour in a convent is the room where the nuns
are permitted to speak to their friends through a lattice. — Tales and Novels of
J. de La Fontaine — Volume 14;
• (cloister)- a place of religious seclusion, as a monastery or convent, (
(- )); The quiet life of the cloister was abandoned for a life of
open warfare under a military discipline. — The History of Education;
educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and
spread of western civilization;
• (refectory)- a dining hall in a religious house, a college, or other institution,
( , ); The beautiful and commodious hall of
the refectory was occasionally used for various secular gatherings. — Little
Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young;
• (monastery)- a community of persons, especially monks, bound by vows to a
religious life and often living in partial or complete seclusion; A few days
later the monastery was a ruin. — Now It Can Be Told;
• (monastic)- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of monks or nuns, their
manner of life, or their religious obligations:, ( - );
Insubordination had to be checked or the monastic institution was doomed.
— A Short History of Monks and Monasteries;
anoint = inunct = embrocate = oil
• (anoint)- to consecrate or make sacred in a ceremony that includes the
token applying of oil, (
); Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come
and anoint him. — Conservapedia - Recent changes [en];
• (inunct)- administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of
blessing;
• (embrocate)- to moisten and rub (a part of the body) with a liniment or
lotion;
exegesis : tonsure