Adjective
Pertaining to, or resembling, a monk or monasticism.
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Among the most curious, original, and lively of the monkish Latin poems, are those least in harmony with their cold ascetic discipline.
The miser’s niece was there all right, seated on a little stool with straw in her hair and reading a monkish scroll by the light of a tallow dip.
Tending to self-denial; ascetic.
Adjective
befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial