By monastic, I mean the coenobitic type, not the hermit type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference

By a curious concurrence of events the coenobitic life of Lerins, so utterly unlike the later monasticism of the Benedictines, was long preserved in a remote corner of Christendom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference

For a long time there was no distinction between monastic and secular life: it was only gradually that an organised monasticism grew up out of the coenobitic life for men and for women.    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

The chapels served till the Revolution as seven stations which were visited by the pilgrims to the island, but we can hardly doubt that in these, as in the Seven Chapels at Glendalough, we see relics of the earlier coenobitic establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Studies from England and Italy] Reference

As a matter of fact, Basil's coenobitic monasticism, in comparison with the "wilder and more dreamy asceticism which prevailed in Egypt and Syria" (Milman, Hist.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

A more important personage than any of these is the famous St. Benedict, father of the Benedictine order, and "father of all monks," as he was afterwards called, who, beginning himself as a hermit, caused the hermit life to fall, not into disrepute, but into comparative disuse; while the coenobitic life -- that is, life, not in separate cells, but in corporate bodies, with common property, and under one common rule -- was accepted as the general form of the religious life in the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermits] Reference