[f. CŒNOBITE + -ISM.] The practice or system of cœnobites.
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., I. 221/2. In the form of cenobitism it was entirely unknown.
1889. Spectator, 26 Oct., 561/1. The essence of the rule is a solitary life, broken only on great occasions by a concession to cœnobitism.
