ADJ.
lively
VERB + MONKISH
force
MONKISH + NOUN
latin, poems, rhetoric
adj
Pertaining to, or resembling, a monk or monasticism.
Among the most curious, original, and lively of the monkish Latin poems, are those least in harmony with their cold ascetic discipline.
Tending to self-denial; ascetic.
Father Zachary urged these perils to the Baron with all the force of monkish rhetoric.