monkery

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  The practices of monks; the way of life, behavior, etc. characteristic of monks; monastic life.
 * 2)  Monasticism.
 * 3)  A monastery.
 * 4) * February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:
 * Polite society won't have the truth. You've got to feed it on lies, or go into a monkery &mdash; if that's what they call a masculine nunnery. Don't want to go into a monkery, so I lie. Reluctantly, delicately, frequently.
 * 1) * 1910, John M. Francis, Samuel French (publisher), Bill, the Coachman, No. II, French's American acting edition:
 * M RS . B. Yes; and we are going to have it [ice cream] served on gold plates, too.
 * B REW . Holy smoke, my house a monkery, and a gold-plated monkery at that. Now, you see here, all of you; I give you fair notice that I don't propose to have any more dances or parties or anything else after this one.
 * 1)  Monks, considered as a group. (Compare, .)
 * 2) * ???, John Borthwick, in an Answer to John Foxe, who wrote about The Persecution in Scotland, as published in The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume V (Stephen Reed Cattley, editor), in 1838; page 619:
 * And furthermore, so long as they do entangle and bind themselves with so many and so perverse and wicked kinds of worshipping as the monkery now-a-days doth contain in it, I may well say that they are not consecrated unto God,
 * 1) * 1959 or earlier, published in Readings in Russian History and Culture in 1968 by Ivar Spector and Margaret Marion Spector (editors):
 * The close ties existing between the monkery and the aristocracy were evident in many cloisters. Superior Stefan, who was expelled from Pechera Monastery, immediately secured the support of many boyars who "gave him from their estates what he needed for himself and for other purposes."
 * B REW . Holy smoke, my house a monkery, and a gold-plated monkery at that. Now, you see here, all of you; I give you fair notice that I don't propose to have any more dances or parties or anything else after this one.
 * 1)  Monks, considered as a group. (Compare, .)
 * 2) * ???, John Borthwick, in an Answer to John Foxe, who wrote about The Persecution in Scotland, as published in The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume V (Stephen Reed Cattley, editor), in 1838; page 619:
 * And furthermore, so long as they do entangle and bind themselves with so many and so perverse and wicked kinds of worshipping as the monkery now-a-days doth contain in it, I may well say that they are not consecrated unto God,
 * 1) * 1959 or earlier, published in Readings in Russian History and Culture in 1968 by Ivar Spector and Margaret Marion Spector (editors):
 * The close ties existing between the monkery and the aristocracy were evident in many cloisters. Superior Stefan, who was expelled from Pechera Monastery, immediately secured the support of many boyars who "gave him from their estates what he needed for himself and for other purposes."
 * The close ties existing between the monkery and the aristocracy were evident in many cloisters. Superior Stefan, who was expelled from Pechera Monastery, immediately secured the support of many boyars who "gave him from their estates what he needed for himself and for other purposes."