Definition of Augustinian order

1. Noun. Any of several monastic orders observing a rule derived from the writings of St. Augustine.

Generic synonyms: Monastic Order, Order
Specialized synonyms: Augustinian Canons, Augustinian Hermits, Austin Friars
Member holonyms: Augustinian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Augustinian Order

August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
August Strindberg
August Wilhelm von Hoffmann
August plum
Augusta
Augustan
Auguste Comte
Auguste Rodin
Augustin Eugene Scribe
Augustin Jean Fresnel
Augustine
Augustine of Hippo
Augustinian
Augustinian Canons
Augustinian Hermits
Augustinian order (current term)
Augustinianism
Augustinians
Augusts
Augustus
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Augusty
Augæan
Aujeszky
Aujeszky's disease
Aujeszky's disease virus
Aukštaitian
Aukštaitians
Aukštaitija
Aulacorhyncus

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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