coenobite

Noun

cenobite (plural cenobites)

1. A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
   • Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites.1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, page 418
2. A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
   • To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity. He is a part of...1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 208
3. A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.