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Cistercian

sɪˈstərʃən
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View of Leeuwenhorst Abbey near Noordwijkerhout in the situation around 1560. The Cistercian women's abbey was destroyed in 1573.
View of Leeuwenhorst Abbey near Noordwijkerhout in the situation around 1560. The Cistercian women's abbey was destroyed in 1573.
  1. (n) Cistercian
    member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence
Illustrations
Saint Bernard of Claivaux, founder of the Cistercian order, in prayer, hands clasped over a book. Below the portrait a cartouche with a short Latin text about his life. Part of a series of images of the most famous founders of the monastic orders.
Saint Bernard of Claivaux, founder of the Cistercian order, in prayer, hands clasped over a book. Below the portrait a cartouche with a short Latin text about his life. Part of a series of images of the most famous founders of the monastic orders.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, dressed in a white habit of the Cistercian order, holding a book in one hand and a staff in the other. Next to him are a dog and three miters. At the bottom of the pedestal a seven-line command in Latin and two coats of arms with miter and staff. Print from a series of saints.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, dressed in a white habit of the Cistercian order, holding a book in one hand and a staff in the other. Next to him are a dog and three miters. At the bottom of the pedestal a seven-line command in Latin and two coats of arms with miter and staff. Print from a series of saints.
Saint Dominic meets the Cistercian monks and offers his help in the fight against the heretical Albigensians. The print has a Latin inscription and caption and is part of a print series for a book about the life of Saint Dominic.
Saint Dominic meets the Cistercian monks and offers his help in the fight against the heretical Albigensians. The print has a Latin inscription and caption and is part of a print series for a book about the life of Saint Dominic.
Saint Bernard stands under the tree of the Cistercians with the monastery at Clairvaux in the background.
Saint Bernard stands under the tree of the Cistercians with the monastery at Clairvaux in the background.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, founder of the Cistercian Order, with an image of Mary holding the Christ Child in his hands. In the left background, the saint kneels in a chapel in front of an image of Mary and the Christ Child. In the margin a Bible quote from Sir. 51 in Latin.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, founder of the Cistercian Order, with an image of Mary holding the Christ Child in his hands. In the left background, the saint kneels in a chapel in front of an image of Mary and the Christ Child. In the margin a Bible quote from Sir. 51 in Latin.
Portrait of Saint John de la Barriere, reformer of the Cistercian order.
Portrait of Saint John de la Barriere, reformer of the Cistercian order.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, reformer of the Cistercian order, wearing a monk's robe and bishop's staff.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, reformer of the Cistercian order, wearing a monk's robe and bishop's staff.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Cistercian
    (Eccl) A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Cîteaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) Cistercian
    A member of an order of monks and nuns which takes its name from its original convent, C îteaux (Cistercium), near Dijon, in France, where the society was founded in 1098 by Robert, abbot of Molesme, under the rule of St. Benedict. They led a contemplative and very ascetic life, and, having emancipated themselves from the oversight of the bishops, formed a sort of religious republic, under the government of a high council of twenty-five members, the abbot of C îteaux being president. St. Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux (founded 1115), was the most celebrated member of the order, and is regarded as its second founder. Its discipline was afterward greatly relaxed, and several times reformed. From the Cistercians emanated the barefooted monks or Feuillants in France, the nuns of Port-Royal, and the monks of La Trappe. The French revolution reduced the Cistercians to a few convents in Belgium, Austria, Poland, and the Saxon part of Upper Lusatia. They wear a white cassock with a black scapular, but when officiating are clothed with a large white gown, with great sleeves and a hood of the same color. The Cistercians have abbeys in the United States at Gethsemane in Kentucky, and near Dubuque in Iowa.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Cistercian
    sis-ter′shan one of the order of monks established in 1098 in the forest of Citeaux (Cistercium), in France—an offshoot of the Benedictines.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary LL. Cistercium,. F. Cîteaux, a convent not far from Dijon, in France: cf. F. cistercien,

Usage in the news

Father Peter Verhalen has become the first American to serve as abbot of the Cistercian Abbey Our Lady of Dallas. dallasnews.com

The Cistercian Monastery elected him as the new abbot on Feb. Classifieds/Place an Ad. dallasnews.com

FW Trinity Valley blanks Cistercian , 30-0. dallasnews.com

Meditating with the Early Cistercians, ed. hprweb.com

Marian Piety from the Cistercians. hprweb.com

The Trappists , a branch of the Cistercian order of Catholic monks and nuns, are known for self-sufficiency. online.wsj.com

In the general silence of a Cistercian abbey, one might hope for the numinous to reveal itself—and so it does in John Slater's poems. forewordmagazine.com

Usage in literature

It was occupied by the Cistercians, and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. "England, Picturesque and Descriptive" by Joel Cook

The flower is often associated with the sword of justice, and both the Dominicans and the Cistercians held it in high honour. "Storyology" by Benjamin Taylor

The name comes from the Cistercian Abbey of Warden in Beds. "The Book of Pears and Plums" by Edward Bartrum

Certainly those old Cistercians knew how and where to build their monasteries. "Cynthia's Chauffeur" by Louis Tracy

The Cistercian polity calls for special mention. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4" by Various

To escape their wiles he determined to enter the Cistercian monastery of Citeaux. "What Shall I Be?" by Rev. Francis Cassily

One such garden was the Cistercian convent of Helfta, near Eisleben, in Saxony, in the thirteenth century a centre of mystic tendencies. "Of Six Mediæval Women" by Alice Kemp-Welch

Near Cologne is the fine old Cistercian abbey of Altenburg. "The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine" by Francis Miltoun

There are still some fragments of the 1185 Cistercian Abbey. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3" by Various

Foundation of the Cistercian Order 208 1099. "Sketches of Church History" by James Craigie Robertson

Usage in poetry
Cistercians might crack their sides
With laughter, and exemption get,
At sight of heroes clasping brides,
And hearing--O the horn! the horn!
The horn of their obstructive debt!
"Hernani" by George Meredith Author object (1834)