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Columban, a. and n.|kəˈlʌmbən|
[f. Columba + -an.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of St. Columba and his followers.
B. n. A disciple of St. Columba.
1879Dublin Rev. Oct. 271 The Columban monastic bodies. Ibid. 273 The expulsion of the Columbans from Pictish territory. 1920in H. F. Henderson Relig. in Scot. iii. 76 Hither resorted the young men..to..study the discipline of the Columban Church. 1960G. W. Dunleavy Colum's Other Island 93 Under Aidan's hand and in the Columban tradition, a second Iona arose in Northumbria to father other monasteries. |