monastary

English

Noun

monastary (plural monastaries)

1. Erroneous spelling of monastery, mainly occurring before 17th century, occasionally cropping up in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
   • 1594 Robert Parsons. A Conference about the Next Succession of the Crown of Ingland. p. 153

     ...his reigne at the first endured very litle, for that a certayne bastard uncle of his, named Don Mauregato by help of the moores put him out, and reigned by force 6 yeares, and in the end dying with out issue, the matter came in deliberation againe, whether the king Don Alonso the chaste that yet lived, and had bin hidden in a monastary of Galitia, during the tyme of the tyrat, should returne agayne to governe, or rather that his cosen german Don vermudo sonne to his uncle, the Prince Vimerano (whom we shewed before to have byn slayne by this mans father king Fruela) should be elected in his place.

   • 1697 The Most Pleasing and Delightful HISTORY of Reynard the Fox, and Reynardine his Son. with The Morals to each Chapter, Explaining what appears Doubtful or Allegorical.
     LONDON: Printed by W. Onley M DC XC VII

     ...being altogether disguised he hoped to get into the Monastary again, from whence you have heard he fled.

   • 1780 Anonymous. A New History of Scotland. p. 41. Pub: Lumsden and Son, Glasgow.

     The Scots were now impatient under the English yoke. Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, grandson of that Robert who was competitor with Baliol, having at this time privily left the court of England, and come into Scotland, with a design of becoming king, and having communicated his intentions to Cumin, who it was necessary should be in his interest, he having similar views, betrayed his confidence: for which Bruce (meeting him in a monastary at Dumfries,) stabbed him on the 10th Feb. 1306.

   • 1806 François Joseph Pons. A Voyage to the Eastern Part of Terra Firma, Or the Spanish Main Vol II p.84

     According to this permanent right, no cathedral nor parish church, no monastary nor hospital can be founded in America, without express and direct permission from the king.

   • 1824 David Mc'Nicoll. Pro & Con: or, the claims of the stage. p.

     If we are to be continually weeping and praying, we had better at once retire to a monastary or cave, shut out the light of heaven, count our beads, and finally bid adieu to all communication with our fellow-men. ... Contemptuously adverting to monastaries and beads, in personal depreciation of a respectable communion, which is not likely to be cured of its errors by any such means.