monkish

And I have always despised the monkish obscurity cultivated by certain academics.

This makes you, at turns, desirous of luxury and monkish asceticism, as you strike a balance between the two.

Earthly delights impart little thrill, as you wax monkish by weekend.

The doctrine of the creation the earth only six or seven thousand years ago is a product of monkish ignorance.

The monkish representations of the wounds were depicted in countless rosaries and Books of Hours.

A long process of reasoning could then be saved by reference to some obscure picture of monkish fancy.

And did God give you a grip of steel and an arm of iron to let them grow weak in some monkish cell?

Among the monkish loot at St. Albans was an ancient cameo herewith reproduced.