c1450 (1905) II. 412 (MED) Þer was a blak monk þat fell in apostasye, & syne he was a Premonstracence & went oute.
c1450 J. Capgrave (1910) 147 (MED) The viij son of Iacob, he hite Leui..and be þis name we vndirstande þe ordre of Premonstracenses, whech be-gan in Fraunce vndir a holy man þei cleped Norbertus.
c1534 (1868–72) I. 245 Some be cluny, And Some be plumy, with cistercyences, Grandimontences, Camaldulences, premonstratences, Theutonycences, [etc.].
1623 J. A. Rivers ii. 82 (note) S. Norbert..founder of the order of Præmonstratenses,..freed Antwerp from the heresie of Tanchelinus.
1718 tr. W. Dugdale II. (heading) Of the original and first institution of the Canons of the Order of the Premonstratenses.
1761 L. Sterne IV. 27 The nuns of mount Calvary—the Præmonstratenses—the, Clunienses—the Carthusians, and all the severer orders of nuns who lay that night in blankets or hair-cloth.
1800 C. Collignon tr. Vosgien II. (at cited word) The altar piece of the Premonstratenses, and of the chapel in the palace hall are among his performances.
1892 7 246 The exemption..was in part revoked..by Adrian IV, who limited its application to the Templars, the Hospitallers and the Cistercians. To these Innocent III added the Præmonstratenses.
1934 H. L. Hughes tr. A. Gemelli 73 Clusters of layfolk surrounded the Abbeys of the Premonstratenses and the Benedictines.
2005 irishgenealogy.net 31 Oct. (O.E.D. Archive) The Drumalis site is of particular historic interest because the monastic order to which it once belonged was that of the ‘Premonstratenses’ or White Canons, dedicated to the Holy Cross.