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Gilbertine, a. and n. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈgɪlbətɪn, -aɪn|
Also 6–7 Gilbertin.
[ad. med.L. Gilbertīnus, f. Gilbert-us Gilbert: see -ine.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to Gilbert of Sempringham in Lincolnshire, or to the religious order founded by him (c 1140), which included both men and women.
B. n. A canon or nun of the Gilbertine order.
c1540Pilgr. T. 156 in Thynne's Animadv. (1875) App. i. 81 There be other that be anthonyn, but he whom I salute was gylbertin. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 148 Thirteene religious houses of the same Order.. had in them seuen hundred Gilbertin Brethren, and eleuen hundred Sisters. 1693tr. Emilianne's Hist. Monast. Ord. xiv. 133 His Followers, who, for his Name, were called Gilbertines. 1725Hearne R. Brunne's Chron. Pref. (1810) 32 He [Robert Manning] lived for some time in the House of Sixhill..a Gilbertine Priory in Lincolnshire. 1885Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 907/2 The habit of a Gilbertine canon was a black cassock with a white cloak over it, and a hood lined with lambskin. |