Cluniac

English

Etymology

From Cluny +‎ -ac.

Noun

Cluniac (plural Cluniacs)

1. (historical) A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 910 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France.
   • 1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:

     […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.

Synonyms

• Cluniacensian

Related terms

• Clunian

Translations

Cluniac (monk)

• Armenian: կլունիական (kluniakan)
• Catalan: cluniacenc m
• German: Cluniazenser m, Kluniazenser m
• Portuguese: cluniacense m

Adjective

Cluniac

1. Relating to a reformed Benedictine monastic order founded at Cluny in eastern France.
   • 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57:

     In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.

References

• “Cluniac”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “Cluniac”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.