noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
benedictine
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We paused now and again at some hostelry and, on one occasion, a Benedictine monastery , I forget its name.
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The former Benedictine monastery of St George has found a new life as a museum and is well worth visiting.
buddhist
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To reach the centre visitors take a boat from a quiet Buddhist monastery across a sleepy brown river.
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In May 1986, Bimal's own Buddhist monastery in Dighinala was burned to the ground.
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We went together to Lantau, and travelled on a really hair-raising bus journey to a Buddhist monastery in the mountains.
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He was a gentle character, who perhaps would have been happier as the abbot of a Buddhist monastery .
great
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The landholding of few of the great monasteries of northern Francia shows anything more than temporary dislocation.
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He was, however, immensely impressed by the great number of monasteries and churches.
medieval
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The rear section of the bull to the east is identified by the medieval monastery sites.
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The cellars of the present building are adapted from the cloisters of a medieval monastery .
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The remains include parts of an Anglo-Saxon church, a Norman church and a medieval monastery .
old
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Many old established monasteries acted as minsters, or the major churches serving particular estates.
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Fifteen miles away is Forde Abbey, a 900-year old Cistercian monastery with gardens.
■ VERB
enter
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Edmund was allowed to enter a monastery , where after his death he was buried in chains at his own request.
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Sexburga, entered this monastery after the death of her husband, King Erconbert, and later succeeded her sister as abbess.
found
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He returned to Forli as a newly ordained priest and founded there a new monastery for his order.
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Both founded monasteries , and both propounded rules for individual salvation.
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In 798 he founded a monastery at Winchcombe, where a new church was dedicated in 811.
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He founded two monasteries in Wearmouth, then traveled extensively.
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Ivan founded a monastery at Cetinje, and it was from the monks who lived there that the orthodox bishops were chosen.
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Empress Adelaide founded monasteries , convents, and donated generously to the needy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fifteen miles away is Forde Abbey, a 900-year old Cistercian monastery with gardens.
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In the end, they met among the monastery buildings at Melrose, on its river-girt promontory thirty miles inland from Berwick.
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Leaving his monastery in the countryside, Bishop Martin took his place at the see wearing his animal skins.
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The church itself became a two-class system: the ascetic monasteries versus the more worldly regular clergy.
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They perceived that the acquisition of wealth and privilege exposed churches and monasteries to new dangers.
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To protect themselves they also determined to withdraw to a monastery .