'Monkery' definitions:
Definition of 'Monkery'
From: GCIDE
- Monkery \Monk"er*y\, n.; pl. Monkeries.
- 1. The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach. [1913 Webster]
- Miters, and wretched dead mediaeval monkeries. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A collective body of monks. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Though he have a whole monkery to sing for him. --Latimer. [1913 Webster]