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Definition of Augustinian order
1. Noun. Any of several monastic orders observing a rule derived from the writings of St. Augustine.
Specialized synonyms: Augustinian Canons, Augustinian Hermits, Austin Friars
Member holonyms: Augustinian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Augustinian Order
Literary usage of Augustinian order
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Hence the Augustinian order of to-day has only a tenth of the monasteries which
it possessed at the time of its greatest prosperity. ..."
2. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1905)
"... HISTORY OF THE Augustinian order IN THE FILIPINAS ISLANDS BY FRAY JUAN DE
MEDINA, OSA (Concluded) CHAPTER XXX Of the first election of our father Fray ..."
3. Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany Until the Close of the Diet of by Charles Beard (1896)
"iv THE Augustinian order . and left wings. The " Hermits," as they loved to ...
But the Augustinian order neither has the individuality nor rises to the ..."
4. Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland: Being a Complete ...Great (1900)
"... of H canons of the Augustinian order; ancient house no remains now Priory,
which occupies the site of the ligious house of that name, is iu the style, ..."
5. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1901)
"In September, 1889, he was elected at a general chapter of the Augustinian order
prior-general of the Hermits of the order of St. Augustine, ..."
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