Cenobitic (also spelled cœnobitic, koinobitic) monasticism's a monastic tradition that stresses community life. Often in the West, the community belongs to a religious order and the life of the cenobitic monk's regulated by a religious rule, a collection of precepts. The older style of monasticism, to live as a hermit,'s called eremitic; and a third form of monasticism, found primarily in the East,'s the skete. The English words "cenobite" and "cenobitic" are derived, via Latin, from the G… (More on Cenobite)