Monkish
111Mourgue — This is a French Huguenot metonymic surname. Recorded in England in the spellings of Mourge, Mourgue, and Morge, the name derives from the Old French pre 10th century Moine , meaning a monk. Morgue is a dialectal spelling principally from the… …
112Mullins — There are two accepted sources for this surname when found in Ireland. The first is as an Anglicized form of the Old Gaelic O Maolain , a byname which translates as the descendant of the tonsured one , indicating perhaps a devotee or follower of… …
113Munn — Recorded as Moon, Munn and Moone, this unusual and interesting surname is regarded as English, but has two possible origins, both French! Firstly it is probably locational from the village of Moyon in the departement of La Manche, in Normandy.… …
114Munns — This unusual and interesting name is a variant of the surname Moon , deriving from the Anglo French words moun or mun , meaning monk . In medieval times, when surnames were being created, the name could originally have been from the office of… …
115Munson — This interesting name has three possible origins. Firstly, it may be a patronymic from the Olde English pre 7th Century munuc or munec , a monk, a nickname for someone of monkish habits or appearance or an occupational name for a servant employed …
116celibate — Synonyms and related words: Apostolic, Encratic, Lenten, Platonic, Pythagorean, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abbacomes, abbot, absolute, abstemious, abstinent, acarpous, alone, arid, ascetic, azygous, bachelor, barren, beadsman, brother,… …
117monastic — Synonyms and related words: abbacomes, abbot, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibataire, celibate, cenobite, claustral, cloistered, conventical, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother …
118ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS — a famous scholar and man of letters, born at Rotterdam; illegitimate son of one Gerhard; conceived a disgust for monkish life during six years residence in a monastery at Steyn; wandered through Europe and amassed stores of learning at various …
119FAKIR — (lit. poor), a member of an order of monkish mendicants in India and adjoining countries who, from presumed religious motives, practise or affect lives of severe self mortification, but who in many cases cultivate filthiness of person to a… …
120GILDAS — a monkish historian of Britain, who wrote in the 6th century a Latin work entitled De Excidio Britanniæ, which afterwards appeared in two parts, a History and an Epistle …
