Cluniac

English Etymology From en Cluny -ac. Noun en historical A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine order, founded in 910 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. en 1918 Edmund Bishop Liturgica Historica 229 maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other. Synonyms en Cluniacensian Related terms en Clunian Translations Cluniac (monk) Armenian: hy կլունիական Catalan: ca cluniacenc m German: de Cluniazenser m, de Kluniazenser m Portuguese: pt cluniacense m Adjective en adjective Relating to a reformed Benedictine monastic order founded at en Cluny in eastern France. en 2022 January 12 Dr. Joseph Brennan Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail RAIL 948 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 en Monasticism