[ad. late L. cœnobium; see above.] A conventual establishment.
a. 1475. trans. T. à Kempis’s Imit., I. iii. Þere wolde not be … so muche dissolucion in cenobies and monasteries.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 603. Great Cœnobies were built for them, so called of their communion of life.
1646. Buck, Rich. III., 68 (R.). Stones brought from that demolished Cænoby.
1882–3. Schaff, Encycl. Relig. Knowl., I. 241. He … established twelve such cenobies in the neighbourhood.
