a religious who lives in a convent, or in community, under a certain rule; in opposition to anchorite or hermit, who lives in solitude. The word comes from the Greek κοινωνία, "community"; and ζωή, "life." Cassian makes this difference between a convent and a monastery, that the latter may be applied to the residence of a single religious or recluse, whereas the convent implies coenobites, or numbers of religious living in common. Fleury speaks of three kinds of monks in Egypt; anchorites, who live in solitude; coenobites, who continue to live in community; and saurabites, who are a kind of monks-errant, that stroll from place to place. He refers the institution of coenobites to the times of the apostles, and makes it a kind of imitation of the ordinary lives of the faithful at Jerusalem. Though St Pachomius is ordinarily owned the institutor of the coenobite life, as being the first who gave a rule to any community.