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AUGUSTINIAN
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• AUGUSTINIAN (noun)
The noun AUGUSTINIAN has 1 sense:
1. a Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the Augustinian monastic orders
Familiarity information: AUGUSTINIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Roman Catholic friar or monk belonging to one of the Augustinian monastic orders
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Augustinian" is a kind of...):
friar; mendicant (a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Augustinian"):
Austin Friar (one of the Roman Catholic hermits of Saint Augustine)
Holonyms ("Augustinian" is a member of...):
Augustinian order (any of several monastic orders observing a rule derived from the writings of St. Augustine)
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