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noun
1.
a member of a monastic order founded by St. Bruno in 1086 near Grenoble, France.
adjective
2.
pertaining to the Carthusians.
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Carthusian
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Origin:
1520–30; < Medieval Latin Cartusiānus, by metathesis from Catursiānus, after Catursiānī (montēs) district in Dauphiné where the order was founded
1520–30; < Medieval Latin Cartusiānus, by metathesis from Catursiānus, after Catursiānī (montēs) district in Dauphiné where the order was founded
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Carthusian
c.1394, from L. Cartusianus, in reference to an austere order of monks founded 1086 by St. Bruno at Chartreux, village in Dauphiné, France.
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