For a time he tasted the life of the anchorite and the coenobite. From Wordnik.com. [The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003] Reference
In company with Alypius and Nebridius, he sincerely lamented that this fair dream of coenobite life was impracticable. From Wordnik.com. [Saint Augustin] Reference
It was to his ancestral Scyllacium that Cassiodorus retired; and here, between the mountains of Aspromonte and the sea, he founded his monastery, or, more accurately, his two monasteries, one for the austere hermit, and the other for the less aspiring coenobite. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator] Reference
"coenobite.". From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
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