What a palatial kitchen and more than monasterial refectory!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference

His tonsure was positively monasterial, and it bothered him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Causes]

One hundred and seventy-one in all -- of which 155 are parochial, five monasterial, and eleven conventual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated; Translated from the Spanish, by R. R. Madden, M.D. With the History of the Early Life of the Negro Poet, Written by Himself; to Which Are Prefixed Two Pieces Descriptive of Cuban Slavery and the Slave-Traffic, by R. R. M.] Reference

The judicial position of the clergy received another blow by the promulgation of the so-called monastyrskij prikaz (monasterial ordinance).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

In the Capitulary which enjoins the foundation of monasterial and cathedral schools, he says: "Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Science & Education] Reference

The mission-houses were in the monasterial style, many of them on a grand scale -- mansions in fact, with roomy refectories, and kitchens to correspond; snug sitting and sleeping-chambers; well-paved courts and spacious gardens attached.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference

#1: Hansen’s reference to usufruct seems less related to Jeffersonian legal doctrine than to the medieval monasterial or Biblical concepts of sharing the fruits of… as in “all of the creatures of creation” share in the fruits of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hansen and the "Destruction of Creation" « Climate Audit] Reference