noun
Meaning 1
Erroneous spelling of monastery, mainly occurring before 17th century, occasionally cropping up in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1697 The Most Pleasing and Delightful HISTORY of Reynard the Fox, and Reynardine his Son. with The Morals to each Chapter, Explaining what appears Doubtful or Allegorical. LONDON: Printed by W. Onley M DC XC VII ...being altogether disguised he hoped to get into the Monastary again, from whence you have heard he fled.
- 1780 Anonymous. A New History of Scotland. p. 41. Pub: Lumsden and Son, Glasgow. The Scots were now impatient under the English yoke. Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, grandson of that Robert who was competitor with Baliol, having at this time privily left the court of England, and come into Scotland, with a design of becoming king, and having communicated his intentions to Cumin, who it was necessary should be in his interest, he having similar views, betrayed his confidence: for which Bruce (meeting him in a monastary at Dumfries,) stabbed him on the 10th Feb. 1306.
- 1824 David Mc'Nicoll. Pro & Con: or, the claims of the stage. p. If we are to be continually weeping and praying, we had better at once retire to a monastary or cave, shut out the light of heaven, count our beads, and finally bid adieu to all communication with our fellow-men. ... Contemptuously adverting to monastaries and beads, in personal depreciation of a respectable communion, which is not likely to be cured of its errors by any such means.
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