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Cluniac

Cluniac noun: a monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 910 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.

Noun

Cluniac (plural Cluniacs)

  1. (historical) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 910 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.
    • […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229
    Synonyms:
    Cluniacensian

Adjective

Cluniac

  1. Relating to a reformed Benedictine monastic order founded at Cluny in eastern France.
    • In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its...2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57

Synonyms of Cluniac

Forms of Cluniac

pluralCluniacs

Origin of Cluniac

From Cluny + -ac.

Questions about Cluniac

What does Cluniac mean?
Cluniac means a monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 910 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.
What part of speech is Cluniac?
Cluniac can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Cluniac?
The plural of Cluniac is Cluniacs.

Words near Cluniac in the dictionary

  1. clung to the skirts of
  2. clunge
  3. clunges
  4. clungest
  5. Clungunford
  6. Cluniac
  7. Cluniacensian
  8. Cluniacensians
  9. Cluniacs
  10. clunial
  11. Clunie Water

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