Their life is strictly cenobitical, that is to say, life in common in its most absolute form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

How did Pachomius get his idea of the cenobitical life?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

The cenobitical life rapidly and necessarily superseded that of the solitary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference

The conception of the cenobitical life was modified considerably by St. Basil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

There are precepts of charity which can only be fulfilled in the cenobitical life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

They were numerous fervent centres of a partly cenobitical, partly eremetical life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

It was the eremitical, not the cenobitical, type of monasticism which went forth from Egypt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Camaldolese Order; the former foreshadowing the eremitical, the latter the cenobitical, branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The word was first used in this sense when the eremitical life began to be combined with the cenobitical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

An important change in the character of the order was made by Rudolph's extension of the cenobitical life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The lay brothers live an entirely cenobitical life, and are occupied in the servile work of the establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

An aspirant to the solitary or to the cenobitical life at Camaldoli has to undergo a long and severe probation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith alone; Nicholas Ferrer, the enthusiast who dreamed of reviving the cenobitical idea in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Shortly after the middle of the fourth century, two monks, Pgol and Pschais, changed their eremitical monasteries into cenobitical ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

At first a hermitage was started; but soon, on account of the rapid influx of novices, it was found necessary to adopt the cenobitical manner of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

The cenobitical life steadily became the normal form of the religious calling, and the eremitical one the exceptional form, requiring a long previous training.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

In strong contrast with the individualism of the eremitical life was the rigid discipline which prevailed in the cenobitical monasteries founded by St. Pachomius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

The type of life led therein might be described as something midway between purely eremitical inaugurated by St. Paul the first hermit - and purely cenobitical life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

We must now speak of the grounds upon which St. Basil based his decision - a decision so momentous for the future history of monasticism - in favour of the cenobitical life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Although from the first Pachomius seems to have realized his mission to substitute the cenobitical for the eremitical life, some time elapsed before he could realize his idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

But religious obedience, as we understand it now, began only with the cenobitical life, and at the time of which we speak there was nothing to oblige the cenobite to remain in the monastery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

Three years were passed at Rome, during which time the idea of the cenobitical life, as Athanasius had seen it practised in the deserts of Egypt, was preached to the clerics of the West (St. Jerome, Epistle cxxvii, 5).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

In point of austerity however the Antonian monks far surpassed the Pachomian, and so we find Bgoul and Schenute endeavouring in their great monastery at Athribis, to combine the cenobitical life of Tabennisi with the austerities of Nitria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Within twenty years this hermitage already possessed a subject house, and by the middle of the fourteenth century we find the Prior of San Mattia making a visitation of his suffragan monasteries, and the hermitage itself adopting the cenobitical life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Egypt, the followers of St. Anthony were purely eremetical, whilst those who followed the Rule of St. Pachomius, though they more nearly approached the cenobitical ideal, were yet without that element of stability insisted upon by St. Benedict, viz: the "common life" and family spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

Being fully cognizant, therefore, of the unsuitability of much in the Egyptian systems to the times and circumstances in which he lived, he now struck out on a new line, and instead of attempting to revivify the old forms of asceticism, he consolidated the cenobitical life, emphasized the family spirit, and discouraged all private venture in austerities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference

A system hitherto unknown, and attempted a blending of the cenobitical life of the West with the eremitical life of the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

It seems that Pachomius found the solitude of the eremitical life a bar to vocations, and held the cenobitical life to be in itself the higher (Ladeuze, op. cit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

At the same time there were many clerics who did live in common, e.g. the cenobites, and the term canon was applied to them as early as the fourth century; but it must not be inferred from this fact that the office of canon has its origin in those who followed the cenobitical Rule of St. Augustine (see.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference