Vincentian

[vin-sen-shuhn]

Vin·cen·tian

[vin-sen-shuhn] Roman Catholic Church
noun
1.
Also called Lazarist. a member of the “Congregation of the Mission,” founded in France in 1625, engaged chiefly in conducting missions and clerical seminaries.
adjective
2.
of or pertaining to St. Vincent de Paul or the Vincentians.

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Vincentian is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1850–55; Vincent (de Paul) + -ian
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