Dictionary entry

Premonstratensian

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pre‐mon′stra‐ten″sian (?), n. [F. prémontré, fr. Prémontré, fr. L. pratum monstratum.] (R. C. Ch.) One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Prémontré, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants.