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Definition of Benedictine order
1. Noun. A Roman Catholic monastic order founded in the 6th century; noted for liturgical worship and for scholarly activities.
Generic synonyms: Monastic Order, Order
Member holonyms: Benedictine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Benedictine Order
Literary usage of Benedictine 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, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"FOUNDATIONS ORIGINATING FROM OB BASED OPON THE Benedictine order.—It has already
been shown in the first part of this article how the reaction which ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The Earlier History of the Benedictine order. Period of Growth to the Time of
Charlemagne (§1). Period of Decline (§ 2). IV. The History of the Order since ..."
3. The Philological and Biographical Works of Charles Butler, Esquire, of by Charles Butler (1817)
"Literary merit of the Reformed Congregations of the Benedictine order. ANOTHER
circumstance, which contributed to the glory of the reign of Lewis the ..."
4. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"But all the greater bouses contained men of eminent learning down to the latest
times, \?hen the Benedictine order gave to the republic of letters ..."
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