Monkery
- n. A collective body of monks.
- n. The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; — now usually applied by way of reproach.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.