a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Of a cœnobitic character.
1636. James, in Iter Lanc. (1845), Introd. p. lxi. After they became cenobiticall.
1816. Scott, Antiq., v. On Tuesday … I hold a cœnobitical symposion at Monkbarns.
1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Org., § 5. 154. The founder had before him the cœnobitical establishments of the West.
Hence Cœnobitically adv.
1853. Turner, Dom. Archit., III. vi. 194. The inhabitants did not live cœnobitically.
