mono-, mon-

1. Of the nature of or having the characteristics of a monarchy (king, queen, etc.); especially, of a government, vested in a monarch.
2. Of or pertaining to a monarchy; consisting of advocates of monarchy as a form of government.
3. Having the power or functions of a monarch; having undivided rule; autocratic.

The principles of monarchical government; attachment to monarchy or the monarchical principle.

1. Someone who believes in the system or principles of monarchy; especially, a king or queen, who rules a state or territory, usually for life and by hereditary right.
2. A person who has a belief in and who advocates having a monarchy; such as, anyone who reigns over a state or territory, usually for life and by hereditary right; especially, a sole and absolute ruler or a king or empress, often with constitutionally limited authority.

1. Undivided rule by a single person; sole rule or sovereignty; absolute power.
2. A state having a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in a single person. Formerly, also, a nation or state having dominating power over all other states.

Referring to a single skeletal connection in the bones of the body: It would appear that the painful inflammation which Flora was experiencing was limited to a monarthric joint.

The single star figure at the end of prophase (first phase) in mitosis (method of indirect division of a cell).

1. A community of people; especially, monks, bound by vows to a religious life and often living in partial or complete seclusion.
2. A building, or buildings, with grounds in which a group of people observing religious vows; especially, monks who live together.

1. Referring to, or characteristic of a monastery; used more often regarding monks and nuns.
2. Resembling life in a monastery in style, structure, or manner; especially, being secluded and contemplative, strictly disciplined or regimented, and self-abnegating and austere (plain and simple, without luxury or self-indulgence).

1. A lack of belief in the existence of just one God or a god.
2. The doctrine or belief that there is not one God alone.

1. Relating to or involving the hearing of sound by just one ear.
2. Referring to, or designating sound reception by one ear.

A mixed culture of an organism with one prey speicies.

1. In philosophy, the view that seeks to explain all sorts of phenomena with the assumption that there is only one absolute substance, element, or principal.
2. A theory or point of view that attempts to explain everything in terms of a single principle.
3. The conception that there is one causal factor in history and the notion of a single element as the primary determinant of behavior, social action, or institutional relations.

1. A man who withdraws entirely or in part from society and goes to live in a religious community to devote himself to prayer, solitude, and contemplation.
2. In Christianity, a man who has withdrawn from the world for religious reasons; especially, as a member of an order of cenobites (members of a religious order living in a convent or community) living according to a particular rule and under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
3. In any religion, a man who is a member of a monastic order; such as, a Buddhist monk.
4. A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order.
5. Etymology: an early borrowing from Vulgar Latin monicus (French moine, Spanish monje, Italian monaco), from Late Latin monachus, "monk", originally "religious hermit", from Late Greek monakhos, "monk"; noun use of a classical Greek adjective meaning "solitary"; from Greek mono-, "single, alone", from monos, "one, alone".

Not all religious priests are monks

A monk is a man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to a specific religious belief. Monks usually live in monasteries where they take a vow to observe certain religious rules. Some "monks" have lived as hermits in solitude and others have lived a strolling life without any fixed place of residence.

A monk may be conveniently defined as a member of a community of men, leading a more or less contemplative life apart from the world, under the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, according to a rule characteristic of the particular religious order to which he belongs.

The word monk is not itself a term commonly used in the official language of the Roman Catholic Church. It is a popular rather than a scientific designation, but it is at the same time very ancient, so much so that its origin cannot be precisely determined.

In any case the fact remains that the word monachus in the fourth century was freely used by those consecrated to God, whether they lived as hermits or in communities.

So again St. Benedict, a little later (about 535) stated at the beginning of his rule that there were four kinds of monks (monachi):

• cenobites who live together under a rule or an abbot,
• anchorites or hermits, who after long training in the discipline of a community, go forth to lead a life of solitude (and of both of these classed he approves; but also
• sarabites and
• girovagi (wandering monks), whom he strongly condemns as men whose religious life is but a pretense, and who do their own religious activities without the restraint of the obedience of a religious order.

It is probably due to the fact that the Rule of St. Benedict so constantly described the brethren as monachi and their residence as monaslerium, that a tradition has arisen according to which these terms in Latin and English are commonly applied only to those religious bodies which in some measure reproduce the conditions of life contemplated in the old Benedictine Rule.

The mendicant friars; such as, the Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, etc., though they live in their respective communities and chant the Divine Office in choir, are not correctly described as monks.

Their work of preaching, mixing with their fellow men in the world, soliciting alms, and moving from place to place, is inconsistent with the Roman Catholic monastic ideal.

A physical sense or sensation that is stimulated: Janine is affected by auditory monoaesthesia and so loud music can be very painful.

Tasting a teaspoon of spiced sauce will often cause a special monoaesthesia to occur in Mary's mouth.

1. The practice of having only one husband at a time.
2. A woman having a relationship with only one man during a period of time.
3. A reference to a female animal having only one mate at a time.