augustinian canons
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Noun (1)
- an order of priests living in community under the Rule of St. Augustine and sharing their property in commonType of Augustinian order
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Augustinian canons
an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; — called also regular canons of St. Austin, and black canons.
From the entry Augustinian.
Augustinian canons, Black canons
. See under Augustinian.
From the entry canon.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54