Mauristadj.n.
/ˈmɔːrɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɔrəst/ Church History.
A. adj.
Of or relating to the French Benedictine congregation of St Maur, founded in 1618 and famous for its scholarship.The congregation flourished towards the end of the 17th cent., numbering 180 monasteries in 1700, but was suppressed in 1790 by the Revolutionary government and finally dissolved by Pius VII in 1818.
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1759 A. Butler Lives Saints IV. 920 (note) The best edition of this work is given..and that of the Maurist Benedictines.
1812 C. Butler in Butler's Lives Saints (new ed.) I. 12 Dom Ruinart, a Maurist monk.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XV. 107/1 The course of Maurist history and work was checkered by the ecclesiastical controversies that distracted the French Church during the 17th and 18th centuries.
1986 Jrnl. Econ. Hist 46 231 Seventeeth-century France saw another instance, the Maurist Reform, which resulted in major contributions to ecclesiastical scholarship.
B. n.
A member of the congregation of St Maur.
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Maurist1893
1893 Dublin Rev. Apr. 394 The name Maurist became synonymous with a man given wholly to God and to study.
1933 Speculum 8 243 These days we are better able than was Dom Ruinart to recognize the limitations imposed upon the great Maurist.
1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Oct. 1150/4 He applies to near-contemporary life the industry of a Maurist; he tracks down every birth certificate, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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