An archaic or variant form meaning the same as cenobitic; relating to communal religious life.
From cenobitic with the additional adjective suffix -al, creating a doubled form popular in earlier English. This variant was more common in medieval and early modern religious texts.
Cenobitical is basically the fancy old way of saying cenobitic—you'll find it in dusty monastery rule books written when people loved adding extra suffixes to sound extra scholarly.
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