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.

Webster 1913