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Observantine, n. (a.)|əbˈzɜːvəntɪn|
Also 7 -in.
[a. F. Observantin (c 1575 in Godef.), f. observant: see -ine1.]
= observant B. 2. Also attrib. or as adj.
1646Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Warres ix. 235 He built three Monasteries for the Conventuall Friers of Saint Francis order, and three for the Observantines. a1773A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) IV. 208 He [sc. St. James of Sclavonia] embraced with great fervour the humble and penitential state of a lay-brother among the Observantin Franciscan friars at Bitecto, a small town nine miles from Bari. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) II. v. 348 He selected for this purpose the Observantines of the Franciscan order. 1930F. J. Eble tr. Grisar's Martin Luther ii. 51 The vicar..jeopardized the canonical and disciplinary autonomy of the Observantine monasteries entrusted to his care. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 9 June 425/2 A fifteenth-century bard who joined the order at the time when the Observantine reform was making great headway in Ireland. |