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Monastic vs Echage - What's the difference?

monastic | echage |

As nouns the difference between monastic and echage

is that monastic is a person with monastic ways; a monk while echage is the chief official in the monastic system of Ethiopia.

As an adjective monastic

is of or relating to monasteries or monks.

monastic

English

Alternative forms

* monastick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to monasteries or monks.

    • Related terms

    * monastery * monasticism * monk

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person with monastic ways; a monk.

    • echage

    English

    Noun

  • (Christianity) The chief official in the monastic system of Ethiopia.
  • *1972 , Donald Crummey, Priests and Politicians :
  • *:Security in Gondar depended largely on the sanctity of the echage ’s quarter as a place of asylum.
  • *2002 , (Haggai Erlich), The Cross and the River , p. 117:
  • *:The emperor sent an evasive reply and, upon crossing the border, made sure that the echage (the head of Ethiopia's monastic system) marched on his right.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 281:
  • *:Täklä Haymanot was the first in a series of monks to become a key figure at Court, as the Echage (e?ägé ).