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monk: see monasticism monasticism (mənăs`tĭsĭzəm, mō–) ..... Click the link for more information. . monk 1. a male member of a religious community bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience 2. a fancy pigeon having a bald pate and often large feathered feet Monk Thelonious (Sphere) . 1920--82, US jazz pianist and composer How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Even a monk might have loved them as choice masterpieces of his Maker's hand. A swift messenger had the night before sped round to the outlying dependencies of the Abbey, and had left the summons for every monk to be back in the cloisters by the third hour after noontide. He added another history of a famous Abyssinian monk, who killed a devil two hundred feet high, and only four feet thick, that ravaged all the country; the peasants had a great desire to throw the dead carcase from the top of a rock, but could not with all their force remove it from the place, but the monk drew it after him with all imaginable ease and pushed it down. |
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