cenobite

noun

Etymology: From Old French cenobite or Ecclesiastical Latin coenobīta, from coenobium, from Ancient Greek κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “community life, convent”), from κοινός (koinós, “common”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).

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.”

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 no whole, a freak without a place.”

3. A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.