cenobitic
Adjective
Meaning
Alt. of Cenobitical
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The concept of the cenobitic life is that when many men (or women) live together in a monastic context, like rocks with sharp edges, their "sharpness" becomes worn away and they become smooth and polished.
Further, he believed the society of professors should follow the practices of the cenobitic life, except in vows.
Hermitism never died out though, but was reserved only for those advanced monks who had worked out their problems within a cenobitic monastery.
Some are complex cave networks with large underground chambers, thought to have been used for meditation by the rupestric and cenobitic monks.