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coenobite

(n): a member of a religious order living in common
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7 months ago yarb said:

The meridian demon was upon him; he was possessed by that bored and hopeless post-prandial melancholy which the coenobites of old knew and feared under the name of "accidie."

- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

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