cistercian
IPA: sɪstˈɝʃʌn
Root Word: Cistercian
noun
- A member of a monastic order which follows the Benedictine rule and emphasizes silent contemplative prayer.
adjective
- Of, pertaining to or characteristic of the Cistercian Order and its members.
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Examples of "cistercian" in Sentences
- cistercian comedy performance play preparatory school twain
- A cistercian monastery was founded near here in the year 1142.
- I wish it was a bit more Christocentric and a bit less cluttered....some cistercian simplicity needed there.
- hipster doofus @ November 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 pm why would his players have to help him with the definitions? what are you trying to say tim? cistercian sucks.
- This rule, modeled upon the cistercian customs for lay brothers, imposed upon the knights, besides the obligations of the three religious vows, the rules of silence in the refectory, dormitory, and oratory; of abstinence on four days a week, besides several fast days during the year; they were also obliged to recite a fixed number of paternosters for each day Hour of the Office; to sleep in their armour; to wear, as their full dress, the Cistercian white mantle with the scarlet cross fleurdelisée.
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