† Somasquen.
Obsolete.
= Somaschan n.
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1686 tr. D. Bouhours Life St. Ignatius v. 284 He had made the same Answer some Years before, in reference to the Somasques, and the Theatines.
1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders xviii. 188 The Fathers of the Christian Doctrin..petition'd to be united to the Somasks.
1706 tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 16th Cent. II. iv. xi. 450 Jerome Emiliani, a noble Venetian, in the year 1530 founded some Regular Clerks, called Somasques, from the name of the place where they lived.
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