coenobite

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a member of a religious order living in common

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A "Hellraiser," "Hellbound: Hellraiser II" and "Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth" reunion is guaranteed to make the hair stand up on your spine when Pinhead (Doug Bradley) and his fellow S&M demons Butterball Cenobite (Simon Banford) and Female Cenobite (Barbie Wilde), as well as heroine Kirsty (Ashley Laurance) and hellish causalities Sharon Hill (Sharon Ceccatti) and the priest (Clayton Hill) join forces.
There she meets the sado-masochistic Cenobites, led by Pinhead, whose greatest pleasure is your greatest pain.
By contrast, cenobites saw an opportunity for mutual spiritual growth within the cloistered community, a vision of God in neighbor that had deep resonances in scripture and in the ancient pagan belief in the social character of human nature.
A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, ..., deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, ...
Delight in puns and polysemous play reveals sexual abstinence as inevitable or desirable as in the ironic, homophonic conflation of the concepts of monastic chastity and military continence, 'Les Cenobites tranquilles', in 'Du coton dans les oreilles'.
Fondle 'Em Records (Cenobites, The Juggaknots), owned by New York deejay Bobbito Garcia, owns no master tapes and pays 500/D royalties to its artists - Sureshot (Third Eye, Craig G) * Raw Shack (J-Live, Mr.
Brothers could be said to date to the second century, the early Age of the Desert (200-500 CE), when hermits and cenobites dotted the desert in a world that had only about 20,000 Christians.
He concludes that, in contrast to the relative comfort which the former enjoyed among the desert cenobites, Eusebius "writes in cruel and rude imprisonment" and was a "victim of a persecution." (32) Likewise, a recent Italian volume on Eusebius includes multiple statements on his exilic experience, all of which reiterate the traditional refrain.
It's a mythical piece involving a Chinese puzzle and flesh-eating demons called Cenobites (1987) ***
He became a monk in Palestine in his teens, then spent about 12 years visiting the famous anchorites and cenobites of Egypt.
Benedict, "with God's help to provide for the strong race of the Cenobites." By this St.
The hagiographer represents Fulda as the intellectual and monastic center of the Carolingian empire, and by connecting that cloister with the Egyptian-like askesis of Sualo, Ermenrich enables Fulda's cenobites to enjoy a charismatic communion with the Golden Age of Christian asceticism while subtly assuring them that the priest and former monk Sualo was still part of the institution of the church.