barnabite

Noun

(plural Barnabites)

(historical) A member of a Roman Catholic religious order associated with the church of St. Barnabas in Milan.

Origin

Barnabas +‎ -ite

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He was educated at the Barnabite monastery and afterwards at Padua.
In 1753 he was elected a corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, and shortly afterwards he became professor of philosophy in the Barnabite College of St Alexander at Milan.
' A Barnabite monk, professor of mathematics and philosophy at Annecy.

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