Crossword clues for cistercian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cistercian \Cis*ter"cian\, n. [LL. Cistercium. F. C[^i]teaux, a convent not far from Dijon, in France: cf. F. cistercien.] (Eccl.) A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at C[^i]teaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor. -- a. Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "pertaining to the Cistercian order of monks," with -an + Medieval Latin Cistercium (French Cîteaux), site of an abbey near Dijon, where the monastic order was founded 1098 by Robert of Molesme. As a noun, "monk of the Cistercian order," from 1610s.
Wiktionary
n. A member of a monastic order, related to the Benedictines, who hold a vow of silence
Usage examples of "cistercian".
And fourteen years later, Father Berrendo had taken Megan to the Abbey Cistercian, j So many years after that, this stranger was looking for her.
While the Columban brothers conformed to a monastic rule that was not unlike the one with which the Templars were familiar, based on Cistercian and Benedictine usage, their meditations and spiritual disciplines and even the liturgies they held in common with the rest of the Church Universal all breathed an air of liberation.
In some of the other orders, flagellation ad been stopped, but in the cloistered Cistercian convents monasteries it survived.
As for the Cistercian convents of the Strict Observance, there are in existence today fifty-four convents, worldwide, seven of them in Spain.
Cistercian convents of the Strict Observance, there are in existence today fifty-four convents worldwide, seven of them in Spain.
The Cistercian, the Ignatian, and the Franciscan orders of the Roman Catholic Church all had their roots firmly in Foolishness.
In answer to the excommunications he forced the Cistercians in 1166, by threats of vengeance in England, to expel Thomas from Pontigny.
He thought of the monastery, his six mute years with the Cistercians in which the only communication had been by means of sign language, in which each day had been blessedly the same-meditation and work.
The Cistercians believe in work, after We supported ourselves by farming.
HERNANI Cistercians might crack their sides With laughter, and exemption get, At sight of heroes clasping brides, And hearing--O the horn!
To the great body of the Benedictines and the Cluniacs were added in the middle of the twelfth century the Cistercians, who founded their houses among the desolate moorlands of Yorkshire in solitary places which had known no inhabitants since the Conqueror's ravages, or among the swamps of Lincolnshire.
So defiling was their presence that a true Cistercian might not raise his eyes to their face or touch their finger-tips under ban of church and fear of deadly sin.
Tylor gives an account of the Cistercian gesture-language in his `Early History of Mankind' (2nd edit. 1870, p.
The Cistercian monks thought it sinful to speak, and as they could not avoid holding some communication, they invented a gesture language, in which the principle of opposition seems to have been employed.
I uncovered and louted as I passed thinking that he might be a holy man at his orisons, but he called to me and asked me if I had heard speak of the new indulgence in favor of the Cistercians.