monk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English monk, from Old English munuc, from Proto-West Germanic *munik, from Late Latin monicus, variant of monachus, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”), from μόνος (mónos, “alone”).
Inflected forms:
form: monks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moncke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: monks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: monking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: monked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: monked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: moncke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
pos: noun
examples: This is believed to be the completeſt liſt of this voluminous, proſaick, and driveling monk, that can be formed, without acceſs, at leaſt, to every manuſcript library in the kingdom, which would be very difficult, if not imposſible, to obtain.
In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino […]
gloss: In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
pos: noun
examples: Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one, while in the case of monk and crusader there must have been a sustaining purpose, and possibly a great abnegation, a leaving of lands and possessions.”
gloss: Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A judge.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An inkblot.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthosternos.
pos: noun
gloss: The bullfinch, common bullfinch, European bullfinch, or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
pos: noun
gloss: The monkfish.
pos: noun
gloss: A fuse for firing mines.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To be a monk.
pos: verb
examples: "Ah!" she cried, "thou art the prettiest little monk that ever monked it in this blessed, amorous town of Constance!"
Good people, if you're ever short of a job, don't take up monking for a living.
gloss: To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative.
pos: verb
examples: Many a scholar, making wings of candlewicks to flap away old darkness, monked his life to fasting long while feasting upon new light.
...drinking: monking on a mountain: plodding in self-inflicted darkness so that the entrance into light would be heightened and supercharged: sacrifice and gain: the meek shall inherit the earth.
Sometimes, in the joint, time gets long. It's best then to just sit and think. I call it "monking," because you can become so inspired, with revelations and understandings. After a monking spell, you may get angry in a strange way.
There were half-serious references to his 'going monking'; his new 'religion'; his grey habit; the magnificent house presented to the community in Montreal, etc. (“What price the vow of poverty, etc.”)
gloss: To monkey or meddle; to behave in a manner that is not systematic.
pos: verb
examples: The Avatar spoke gently as she responded to his jibe. "Now fucking get aboard and stop monking on like a schoolboy, you silly earplug.
"You just go into the swamp and keep monking around, and maybe in a week er so, somebody'll open up and begin shooting at you, and if you live long enough to git curious about it, that'll be Tom Keefer."
... because when a man is a corporal its all head work you might say and a man ought to keep their mind on their job evenings as well as day times and I felt like I couldn't do that and be monking with French at the same time...
gloss: To be intoxicated or confused.
pos: verb
examples: I looked up from the thick cotton mat, unsure where my legs were. “She looks monked up.” “maybe her brain is damaged, huh, miss Bryant?”
She looked down at herself and said, “Oh, I got that from monking.” “From what?” “Monking. You ain't never done meth, girl?” she said.
gloss: To attach so that it sticks out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Molten roofing north, lead dripping down south, stand like those immobilized columns of arctic water west, stalagmites, monked and housed or stamped and dudleyed east, in school texts.
All these controls and screens are monked on to a massive network of computers that coordinates the sights.
Those shelters formed chapels where aged forms of the implants monked out in built cells, little churchy cells that perished or grew plain, quivering and hidden from sight under alders.
Related words: monastery
monastic
monasticism
abbey
abbot
brother
cloister
convent
hermit
nun
sister
Derived words: have a monk on
monk bat
Monk Bretton
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monkess
monkette
monkfruit
monk fruit
Monk Fryston
Monk Hesleden
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monkism
monkless
monklet
monklike
monkly
monk parakeet
monk parrot
monk saki
monkscloth
monk seal
monkshood
Monks Horton
Monks Risborough
monk vulture
priest-monk
sea monk
the cowl does not make the monk
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