Cœnobites (Gr. koinos, 'common,' and bios, 'life'), the name given to those monks who live together, in contradistinction to anchorites or hermits, who withdraw from all society, and live in a solitary fashion. See MONACHISM.
Cœnobites
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 330
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