Brewer's: Cenobites

(3 syl.). Monks. So called because they live in common. Hermits and anchorites are not cenobites, as they live alone. (Greek, koihobioles)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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