CISTERCIAN

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• CISTERCIAN (noun)
  The noun CISTERCIAN has 1 sense:

1. member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence

  Familiarity information: CISTERCIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• CISTERCIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cistercian; Trappist

Hypernyms ("Cistercian" is a kind of...):

monastic; monk (a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work)

 Context examples 

Never had the peaceful atmosphere of the old Cistercian house been so rudely ruffled.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I have some small stock of learning,” Alleyne answered, picking at his herring, “but I have been at neither of these places. I was bred amongst the Cistercian monks at Beaulieu Abbey.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)