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▪ I. sanctimonial, n. ? Obs. rare.|sæŋktɪˈməʊnɪəl|
[ad. OF. sanctimoniale, or directly ad. eccl. L. sanctimōniāl-is (Augustine) a nun, subst. use of late L. sanctimōniālis holy, pious: see next. Cf. monial n.]
A nun.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 2594 The hye perfeccyon and proued holynesse Of this pure vyrgyn and sanctymonyall. 1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 265 Women were by women (meaning Diaconisses and Sanctimonials) to be taught. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xliii. 169 That is..what our Sanctimonials alias Nuns in their Dialect call ringing backwards. 1838G. S. Faber Inquiry 421 All Religious Orders of Monks and Sanctimonials they reprobated: saying, that They are vain and superfluous.
▪ II. † sanctiˈmonial, a. rare.
[ad. late L. sanctimōniāl-is holy, pious, f. L. sanctimōnia: see sanctimony.]
= sanctimonious 1.
1721Bailey, Sanctimonial, pertaining to Holiness. 1773J. Ross Fratricide iii. 12 (MS.) Not such was Abel's sanctimonial pledge, So favour'd at the Altar. |