in church history, monks of the Greek church, divided into three degrees: the novices, called archari; the ordinary professed, called microche- mi; and the more perfect, called megalochemi: they are likewise divided into canonites, anchorets, and recluses. The canonites are employed in reciting their offices from midnight to sunlet, they are obliged to make three genuflexions at the door of the choir, and, return- ing, to bow to the right and to the left, to their bre- thren.