† ˈmonking, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. monk n.1 + -ing2.]
a. Living like monks. b. ? Harbouring monks.
| 1537 tr. Latimer's Serm. bef. Convoc. 8 Neither these be solitary, how religious, how mocking, how muncking, I would say; so euever they be. 1650 Fuller Pisgah ii. xiii. 286 Behold here the large difference betwixt him [sc. John the Baptist] and monking Eremites. 1834 Coleridge Table-t. 31 May, The old cœnobitic establishments..were converted..into monasteries and other monking receptacles. |