Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Monkery \Monk"er*y\, n.; pl. {Monkeries}.
   1. The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or
      customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.

            Miters, and wretched dead medi[ae]val monkeries.
                                                  --Carlyle.

   2. A collective body of monks. [Obs.]

            Though he have a whole monkery to sing for him.
                                                  --Latimer.