Columbanadj.n.
/kəˈlʌmbən/ A. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of St. Columba and his followers.
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Columban1879
1879 Dublin Rev. Oct. 271 The Columban monastic bodies.
1920 in H. F. Henderson Relig. in Scot. iii. 76 Hither resorted the young men..to..study the discipline of the Columban Church.
1960 G. 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.
B. n.
A disciple of St. Columba.
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Columban1879
1879 Dublin Rev. Oct. 273 The expulsion of the Columbans from Pictish territory.
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