Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A monk of the Greek Church. See
monk .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos.
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- noun a
reclusive monk of theGreek Orthodox Church
Etymologies
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Examples
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Crossing the bed of the Ilissus and keeping nearer to Mount Hymettus, the travellers arrived at Vary, a farm belonging to the monastery of Agios Asomatos, and under the charge of a caloyer.
The Life of Lord Byron Galt, John, 1779-1839 1830
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The organ of the Latin monks, the cymbals of the Abyssinian priest, the voice of the Greek caloyer, the prayer of the solitary Armenian, the plaintive accents of the
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time Michael Russell 1814
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‘hussar’ is Hungarian; ‘caloyer’, Romaic; ‘mammoth’, of some Siberian language; {14} ‘tattoo’, Polynesian; ‘steppe’, Tartarian; ‘sago’,
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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