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Cenobite
//ˈsɛn.əˌbaɪt// noun
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Noun
- 1 A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
"Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites."
- 2 a member of a religious order living in common wordnet
- 3 A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
"To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity. He is a part of no whole, a freak without a place."
- 4 A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.
Etymology
From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
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