On his return to his country he was received as a saint; he shut himself up in the monastery of Redon,[27] and died regretted by the cenobites whom he had edified by the relation of his pilgrimages.
He lived there in humility and penitence, and was buried among the cenobiteshe had edified by his virtues.
The cenobites of Hiei-zan also took the field in the Imperial cause.
The cenobites did not confine themselves to demonstrations at the palace; they had their own quarrels also.
The caravans from Tor and Mount Sinai always pass at that part, --[I shall say nothing of the Cenobites of Mount Sinai, as I had not the honour of seeing them.
A few days afterwards they were again subjected to the united powers of youth and beauty, but this time nature was too strong, and the too happy cenobites forgot, in the arms of voluptuousness, their vows of continence and chastity.
There were also, here and there on the banks of the river, monasteries, where the cenobites lived in separate cells, and only met together that they might the better enjoy their solitude.
Both hermits and cenobites led abstemious lives, taking no food till after sunset, and eating nothing but bread with a little salt and hyssop.
The monks, governed by the abbots Ephrem and Serapion, and also all the cenobites of the Nile, formed the second line.
Ambitious at once of reducing to subjection their rebellious flesh, and of penetrating the secrets of the celestial light, these cenobites united the active with the contemplative life.
Custom has, therefore, given the title of monks to cenobites alone.
People could obtain all the benefits attached to the pilgrimage of the Holy Land, without quitting their homes; either by commissioning pious men who were sent beyond the seas, or cenobites who resided on the spot.
Thus the rigour of the cloisters and the austere humility of cenobites had nothing repulsive for these warriors.
In ages less remote from us, other cenobites have collected, with laborious care, these same chronicles, concealed in the solitude of cloisters, and have transmitted them to posterity as the most precious monuments of old times.
The primitive monks renounced all property and family relations; the cenobites surrendered also their will.
The first union among the cenobites was the construction of houses in close proximity.
The monks thus united in communities becameCenobites (people who live in common).
He issued a call to arms which was responded to by some thousands of cenobitesand as many soldiers of Taira extraction.
These and many other temples had large tax-free estates, and for the protection of their property they found it expedient to train and arm the cenobites as soldiers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cenobites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
