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- Cistercian - n. - A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
- Cistercian - a. - Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.
- Port-royalist - n. - One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.
- Trappist - n. - A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Extreme austerity characterizes their discipline. They were introduced permanently into the United States in 1848, and have monasteries in Iowa and Kentucky.
- Bernardine - n. - A Cistercian monk.
- Bernardine - a. - Of or pertaining to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, or to the Cistercian monks.