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Cassinese, a. and n.|kæsɪˈniːz|
Also Casinese.
[a. It. Cassinese, f. Monte Cassino, on which the earliest Benedictine monastery was founded c 529: see -ese.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Benedictine monks of Monte Cassino, or to a congregation of Benedictine abbeys.
B. n. A monk of the monastery of Monte Cassino, or of the Cassinese congregation; an inhabitant of the town of Cassino below Monte Cassino.
[c1643in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. (1933) XXXIII. 82 Some Bennedictine fathers, who were of the Italian Congregation, otherwise called the Cassine or the Congregation of S. Justina.] 1878J. L. Patterson Maguire's Pius the Ninth xviii. 357 Supposing.. the libraries were not open to the public, what right had the State to confiscate them... The Cassinese, the Roman College, and the Angelica libraries..have been massed together. 1881Weldon's Chronol. Notes Pref. p. x, The reigning Pope Julius II gave the name of the Cassinese Congregation to the whole body of the reformed Benedictines of Italy. Ibid. Index p. iv, Cassinese Monks on English Mission. 1893Addis & Arnold Cath. Dict. 82/2 There is a monastery at Ramsgate belonging to the Cassinese branch of the order. 1910M. Haile Life R. Pole 127 The Benedictines of St. Giustina at Padua—who were beginning to call themselves Casinese to denote their union with Monte Casino. 1954Biogr. Studies II. 225 Preston was the Mission Superior of the Cassinese in England. 1957F. Majdalany Cassino i. viii. 53 The few thousand Cassinese who, citizens of Cassino, had stubbornly insisted on their right to stay there. Ibid. iii. iii. 117 The bitterness and bewilderment of the Cassinese monks. |