monkery Meaning, Definition & Usage

Monk"er*y noun

Wordforms

plural Monkeries

Definitions

1. The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.

   Miters, and wretched dead mediæval monkeries. Carlyle.

2. A collective body of monks. Obs.

   Though he have a whole monkery to sing for him. Latimer.