Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Monkery

Monkery , noun

1.
The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.
Miters, and wretched dead mediaeval monkeries. — Carlyle
2.
A collective body of monks. [Obsolete]
Though he have a whole monkery to sing for him. — Latimer