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APPENDIX
A note on the word "monasticism"
The word 'monasticism' is derived from the Greek word móvos meaning 'alone, solitary', from which a whole family of words has been formed :
Movn and uovaotypov, ‘monastery'; povaxós, 'monk' or 'solitary'; poyáselv, 'to lead the solitary life'; pová sovtes, 'solitaries'; Mováotpia, ‘nun’; uovadkós, uovaxıkós, PLOVASTiKós, povrens, ‘monastic ; uová jousa, povazoứca, uovaxn, 'nun’; TÒ Movay.ckóv, ‘monasticism'; HOVAOTIKWS, ·monastically’ ; je ovay'suós, ‘monachism'.
In Latin this word has given monachus and its derivatives monacha, monachatus, monachare, monachizare, monachismum, monachatio, monasterium and a few other words.
All these words, derived as they are from the same root, indicate the idea of solitude, of isolation. This solitude must not, however, be interpreted as implying absolute isolation---such asthat of the hermit in the desert. The term 'mook' has come to be applied to men living the same life in common-a life in which they are indeed separated from the world, but not from one another.
-Adapted from Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics,
Vol. VIII, page 781.
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